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Do 'clumsy' children have visual recognition problems?
1Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. hermundurs@svt.ntnu.no
Objective:
Visual recognition by 8-year-old children with hand-eye co-ordination problems (HECP), and by a control group of children without such problems was tested using a task of visual closure.
Design:
The task required the children to identify common objects from an incomplete visual presentation.
Result:
As predicted, it was found that the HECP children, who were designated as such solely on the basis of their motor difficulties, identified significantly fewer correct objects than their control counterparts.
Conclusions:
This finding raises the possibility that the visual processing problems of clumsy children contribute to, or even strongly determine, not only their movement problems but also their learning difficulties.
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