title: Bender visual-motor abilities of slow learners.
abstract: The Bender-Gestalt protocols of 134 rural and 140 urban slow learners (IQ 70 to 84) are compared. Rural slow learners performed significantly below their mental ages more frequently than urban slow learners. Rural and urban slow learners performed developmentally below chronological ages, but as expected for mental ages until CA 10 (MA 8). At this point urban slow learners appeared to perform as expected from MAs, but a significant number of rural slow learners performed below expectations. After CA 14 (MA 11-0) the differences between the urban and rural groups, however, were not significant.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001538:Bender-Gestalt Test; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills; D012424:Rural Population; D014505:Urban Population; D014796:Visual Perception