Visual Perceptual Motor Training on Kindergarteners

National Cheng-Kung University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Agraphia

Treatments: Behavioral: Chinese character-based visuomotor training program; Behavioral: traditional visuomotor training program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT05795738

A-ER-111-161

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to investigate the effects of different visuomotor training programs on children's visuomotor skills and handwriting performance.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 180 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 6 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Kindergarten children who will study the first grade in coming September
• Both parents are native Mandarin Chinese speakers

Exclusion criteria

• 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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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180 participants in 3 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

regular kindergarten education

Chinese characters-based visual-motor program

Experimental group

Description:

visual perceptual motor activities using Chinese characters as activity materials.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Chinese character-based visuomotor training program

traditional visual-motor training program

Experimental group

Description:

visual perceptual motor activities using commercial or self-designed toys and pencil-paper sheets as activity materials.

Treatment:

Behavioral: traditional visuomotor training program