Geometric-Based Handwriting Intervention: Development, Feasibility and Randomized Clinical Trial

National Taiwan University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Elementary Students With Handwriting Difficulties

Treatments: Other: visual-perception motor-coordination integration program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05035901

202009039RIND

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will focus on (1) developing the Chinese characteristic-based VMI-focused program, namely visual-perception motor-coordination integration program (CCVPMCI) involving the most Chinese-handwriting-related skills training and (2) investigating the effectiveness of the CCVPMCI program on handwriting performance in children with handwriting difficulties in Taiwan.

Enrollment: 72 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. poorer handwriting performance than the peers referred from teachers.

Exclusion criteria

1. severe neurological or pervasive developmental disorders that might directly impeded writing
2. intellectual disability that might directly impeded writing
3. musculoskeletal, or sensory (hearing, vision) disorders that might directly impeded writing
4. difficulty in reading or expressing

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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72 participants in 1 patient group

visual-perception motor-coordination integration program

Experimental group

Description:

Visual-perception motor-coordination integration program (CCVPMCI) is a Chinese characteristic-based VMI-focused program involving the most Chinese-handwriting-related skills training. CCVPMCI mainly emphasizes the training role of visual-motor integration. The idea of CCVPMCI program will involve (1) visual motor integration training affiliated with visual perception and motor coordination as warm-up exercise, (2) more focus on visual spatial perception in connect with unique visual structure of Chinese characters, (3) the trace or component elements of Chinese characters as the interesting practice material and (4) appropriate challenge for learning.

Treatment:

Other: visual-perception motor-coordination integration program