Visual Perceptual Motor Training on Kindergarteners
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Chinese character-based visuomotor training program, traditional visuomotor training program.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Agraphia. Basic parameters: 5 years — 6 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Taiwan
- Next step
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Official title
Effects of Different Visual-perceptual-motor Training Courses on Kindergarten Children
Overview
The study aims to investigate the effects of different visuomotor training programs on children's visuomotor skills and handwriting performance.
Detailed 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.
Interventions
- Behavioral Chinese character-based visuomotor training program
this program includes visual-perceptual-motor play, paper-pencil activities, and ipad games using Chinese character as activity materials - Behavioral traditional visuomotor training program
this program includes play and paper-and-pencil activities, ipad games using commercial or self-designed stuffs as activity materials
Primary outcome measures
- The Chinese Handwriting Test [Time frame: baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year]
- The Chinese character recognition Test [Time frame: baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year]
- The Chinese Handwriting Evaluation Form (preschool version) [Time frame: baseline, after 12-week intervention]
- The Chinese Handwriting Evaluation Form (School-aged version) [Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year]
- The Battery of Chinese Basic Literacy [Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year]
Secondary outcome measures (3)
- Test of Visual Perceptual Skills-Fourth Edition (TVPS-4) [Time frame: baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year]
- The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency-Second Edition (BOT-2) [Time frame: baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year]
- The Berry-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration- Forth Edition (VMI) [Time frame: baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year]
Eligibility criteria
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
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
Taiwan · 1 center
- National Cheng Kung University — Tainan
Publications
- Chen YN, Lin CK, Wei TS, Liu CH, Wuang YP. The effectiveness of multimedia visual perceptual training groups for the preschool children with developmental delay. Res Dev Disabil. 2013 Dec;34(12):4447-54. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2013.09.023. Epub 2013 Oct 11. PMID 24120756
- Chang SH, Yu NY. Visual and Haptic Perception Training to Improve Handwriting Skills in Children With Dysgraphia. Am J Occup Ther. 2017 Mar/Apr;71(2):7102220030p1-7102220030p10. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2017.021311. PMID 28218589
- Dankert HL, Davies PL, Gavin WJ. Occupational therapy effects on visual-motor skills in preschool children. Am J Occup Ther. 2003 Sep-Oct;57(5):542-9. doi: 10.5014/ajot.57.5.542. PMID 14527116
- Daly CJ, Kelley GT, Krauss A. Relationship between visual-motor integration and handwriting skills of children in kindergarten: a modified replication study. Am J Occup Ther. 2003 Jul-Aug;57(4):459-62. doi: 10.5014/ajot.57.4.459. PMID 12911088
- Feder KP, Majnemer A, Bourbonnais D, Platt R, Blayney M, Synnes A. Handwriting performance in preterm children compared with term peers at age 6 to 7 years. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2005 Mar;47(3):163-70. doi: 10.1017/s0012162205000307. PMID 15739720
- Feder KP, Majnemer A. Handwriting development, competency, and intervention. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2007 Apr;49(4):312-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2007.00312.x. PMID 17376144
- Hwang YS, Su PF, Hsiao YL, Tsai WH, Hung JY. Developing a Nomogram Model to Predict the Risk of Poor Chinese Handwriting in First Grade. Am J Occup Ther. 2020 Sep/Oct;74(5):7405205080p1-7405205080p8. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2020.038711. PMID 32804626
- Lee TI, Howe TH, Chen HL, Wang TN. Predicting Handwriting Legibility in Taiwanese Elementary School Children. Am J Occup Ther. 2016 Nov/Dec;70(6):7006220020p1-7006220020p9. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2016.016865. PMID 27767941
Identifiers
NCT: NCT05795738 · A-ER-111-161