Occupational therapy effects on visual-motor skills in preschool children.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the assumption that preschool children who receive occupational therapy will demonstrate significant improvement in their visual-motor skills as measured on the Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI) and the two supplemental Visual P...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol. 57; no. 5; pp. 542 - 550 |
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| Formato: | clinical trial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Occupational Therapy Association
Sep/Oct2003
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106718581&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106718581 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 02729490 44I jtl: American Journal of Occupational Therapy issn: 02729490 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep/Oct2003 vid: 57 iid: 5 pid: 6680 pub: American Occupational Therapy Association place: North Bethesda, Maryland artinfo: ui: 106718581 106718581 86055715 2004051082 10.5014/ajot.57.5.542 NLM14527116 106718581 ppf: 542 ppct: 8 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Occupational therapy effects on visual-motor skills in preschool children. aug: au: Dankert HL Davies PL Gavin WJ affil: Director of Occupational Therapy, Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY sug: subj: Developmental Disabilities Rehabilitation Motor Skills In Infancy and Childhood Pediatric Occupational Therapy Visual Perception In Infancy and Childhood Analysis of Variance Child Child, Preschool Clinical Trials Comparative Studies Convenience Sample Correlation Coefficient Descriptive Statistics Effect Size Factor Analysis Female Instrument Validation Interrater Reliability Male One-Tailed Test P-Value Pretest-Posttest Design Quasi-Experimental Studies Random Sample Repeated Measures Research Instruments Sample Size T-Tests Task Performance and Analysis Time Factors Treatment Outcomes Writing In Infancy and Childhood Human Child: 6-12 years Child, Preschool: 2-5 years Female Male ab: OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the assumption that preschool children who receive occupational therapy will demonstrate significant improvement in their visual-motor skills as measured on the Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI) and the two supplemental Visual Perception and Motor Coordination tests. METHOD: Preschool children with developmental delays (n = 12) received occupational therapy a minimum of one individual 30-minute session, and one group 30-minute session per week for 1 school year. Their performance was compared to that of two control groups; preschool students without disabilities who received occupational therapy (n = 16) for one 30-minute group session per week and students without disabilities (n = 15) who received no occupational therapy. The VMI and two supplemental tests were administered three times to each student, at the beginning, middle, and end of school year. RESULTS: Planned comparison tests showed that students with developmental delays demonstrated statistically significant improvement in visual-motor skills and developed skills at a rate faster than expected when compared to typically developing peers on the VMI. The effect size for preschool students without disabilities who received occupational therapy exceeded the effect size for the VMI and Visual Perception supplemental test for the preschool students without disabilities who received no therapy, although, the difference in the post-test performance of these two groups was not statistically significant. DISCUSSION: The results of this study demonstrate that intervention, including occupational therapy, can effectively improve visual-motor skills in preschool-aged children. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: clinical trial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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