Overview
The study aims to investigate the effects of different visuomotor training programs on children's visuomotor skills and handwriting performance.
Description
The purpose of this project is to investigate the effectiveness of visuomotor activities with different activity materials on fine motor, visual perception, visual-motor integration and handwriting performance of kindergarten children. Kindergarteners will be randomized into the three groups: control, Chinese, and traditional groups. Children in the Chinese and traditional groups will receive a visual perceptual motor training program twice every week for 12 weeks and those in the control group will not receive any intervention during the study period. in the end of fall semester of the first grade, the effectiveness of the interventional programs on handwriting performance of participants will be examined again.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Kindergarten children who will study the first grade in coming September
- Both parents are native Mandarin Chinese speakers
Exclusion Criteria:
- A diagnosis of significant neurological, muscular, and skeletal system disorders
- Visual or hearing problems that cannot be corrected to be normal
- Genetic or chromosomal abnormality
- Significant neurological, muscular, and skeletal damage to the trunk or upper extremities
- moderate or severe intellectual disabilities