title: Visual-motor perception in students with attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to characterize and to compare the visual-motor perception of students with Attention Deficit with Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with students with good academic performance.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty students from 2nd to 5th grades of an elementary public school, male gender (100%), aged between 7 and 10 years and 8 months old participated, divided into: GI (20 students with ADHD) and GII (20 students with good academic performance), paired according to age, schooling and gender with GI. The students were submitted to Developmental Test of Visual Perception (DTVP-2).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The students of GI presented low performance in spatial position and visual closure (reduced motor) and inferior age equivalent in reduced motor perception, when compared to GII.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The difficulties in visual-motor perception presented by students of GI cannot be attributed to a primary deficit, but to a secondary phenomenon of inattention that interferes directly in their visual-motor performance.
authors.forename: Giseli Donadon
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Germano
authors.forename: Fábio Henrique
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Pinheiro
authors.forename: Paola Matiko Martins
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Okuda
authors.forename: Simone Aparecida
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Capellini
mesh_terms: D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000503:physiopathology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D017150:Public Sector; D013334:Students; D014787:Vision Tests; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*