title: Use of the Beery Visual-Motor Integration Test with partially sighted students.
abstract: The purpose of this research was to determine the difference in performance of partially sighted and sighted students on the Beery Visual-Motor Integration Test. Since this test is only standardized on sighted students, there are no norms for partially sighted students. 60 partially sighted students, ranging in age from 6 to 18 yr., were tested on Beery's Visual-Motor Integration Test. These students did not achieve as well as Beery's norms indicate his sighted population did. The average age of the partially sighted students was 3 yr., 8 mo. below that of Beery's seeing students. Partially sighted students had greater difficulty with certain test items than Beery's normal subjects. A special test which would rank geometric forms by development stages seems needed for partially seeing students.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D009048:Motor Skills; D011386:Projective Techniques; D012737:Sex Factors; D012858:Size Perception; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D014792:Visual Acuity