Perceptual judgments of normal and clumsy children.
The performance of normal and clumsy children was compared on a range of measures of visuo-spatial perception. It was found that the clumsy children performed more poorly than the normal children on size-constancy judgements and area, slope, spatial position and linear length discriminations. The differences could not be explained by variations in visual acuity. These results are discussed in terms of information-processing models of motor control, and their possible implications for the assessment and treatment of clumsy children are briefly outlined.
D002648:Child; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills; D009949:Orientation; D011596:Psychomotor Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012858:Size Perception; D013028:Space Perception; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014796:Visual Perception; D014888:Wechsler Scales