Visual Perceptual Motor Training on Kindergarteners
- Conditions
- Agraphia
- Interventions
- Behavioral: traditional visuomotor training programBehavioral: Chinese character-based visuomotor training program
- Registration Number
- NCT05795738
- Lead Sponsor
- National Cheng-Kung University Hospital
- Brief Summary
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.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 180
- Kindergarten children who will study the first grade in coming September
- Both parents are native Mandarin Chinese speakers
- 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
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description traditional visual-motor training program traditional visuomotor training program visual perceptual motor activities using commercial or self-designed toys and pencil-paper sheets as activity materials. Chinese characters-based visual-motor program Chinese character-based visuomotor training program visual perceptual motor activities using Chinese characters as activity materials.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The Chinese character recognition Test baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year the change of the Chinese character recognition ability
The Chinese Handwriting Test baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year the change of the handwriting performance
The Chinese Handwriting Evaluation Form (School-aged version) through study completion, an average of 1 year the change of handwriting skills by teacher's rating
The Battery of Chinese Basic Literacy through study completion, an average of 1 year the change of reading and handwriting skills
The Chinese Handwriting Evaluation Form (preschool version) baseline, after 12-week intervention the change of handwriting performance by kindergarten teacher's rating
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The Berry-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration- Forth Edition (VMI) baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year the change of VMI
Test of Visual Perceptual Skills-Fourth Edition (TVPS-4) baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year the change of visual perceptual skills
The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency-Second Edition (BOT-2) baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year the change of fine motor skills
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
National Cheng Kung University
🇨🇳Tainan, Taiwan