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Effects of VMI on Visual Perception, Spatial Awareness and Motor Skills in Preschool Children
Sponsor: Riphah International University
Summary
The preschool stage is an important period for children to develop their motor, language, cognitive, and social-emotional skills. pre-school years are the best time to intervene and correct developmental delays. VMI is linked to learning-related tasks like writing, measuring it in youngsters is essential. Earlier studies reported that children with deficits in VMI had lower academic achievements, the inadequate spatial organization of written work, and lower performance in mathematics and reading performance. The Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, Sixth Edition (Beery VMI-6), determined participants' VMI, VP and motor skills during the pre- and post-tests. Exposure to VMI tasks including, visual perception, spatial awareness and motor skills can be enhanced. VP is assessed by Visual Perception Task (VP Task) and Motor Coordination Task (MC Task) and spatial awareness is assessed by BAS 3.The aim of study is to analyze effects of VMI on visual perception, spatial awareness and motor skills in preschool children. The current study will be randomized control trial; data will be collected from The Leaders Lyseum School Lahore. The study will include 60 children equally divided into two groups and randomly allocated. Inclusion criteria for the study will be Children age 4 to 6 years old and all will be right-handed dominant with no history of visual or neurological abnormalities and exclusion criteria will be Children who presented a disability indicating a central nervous system dysfunction children age below 4 Years and above 6 years. One experimental group will perform Visual Motor Tasks, the other controlled group will perform routine class tasks. Pre and post assessment will be done. Outcomes to be analyzed will be enhancement in visual perception, spatial awareness and motor skills in preschool children by after performing VMI tasks. Data collection will be done before and after the intervention. Tools used for data collection will be. Data will be analyzed through SPSS version 23.00.
Official title: Effects of Visual Motor Integration on Visual Perception, Spatial Awareness and Motor Skills in Preschool Children
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
4 Years - 6 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
60
Start Date
2025-04-16
Completion Date
2025-07-20
Last Updated
2025-05-02
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Visual Motor Integration
The Beery Visual Motor Integration will be used to measure the integration of visual perception and motor skills as the participant children imitated and copied a developmentally sequential series of geometric forms using pencil and paper. As the task progressed, the levels of difficulty in geometric forms increased. VP task will be used to measure an individual's visual abilities without the integration of fine motor skills. Children will be asked to point to the item in the array, which was identical to the target figure. The choices will be written on answer sheets by experimenters or children themselves. Elapsed time will be recorded beginning with Item 7, and the task discontinued after 3 minutes. Children will be told to connect dots and to draw within provided borders. Elapsed time was recorded beginning with Item 7 and the task ended up after 5 minutes.
Locations (1)
Imran Amjad
Lahore, Punjab Province, Pakistan