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The nature of visual-motor problems in learning disabled children was examined in four conditions designed to determine whether more errors were made by learning disabled children, and whether the errors were primarily perceptual, conceptual, motoric, or some combination of these in nature. The same two groups of children were used in each condition. One group contained 20 children (mean age = 10 years, 7 months) who had been diagnosed as learning disabled. The control group contained 20 children who were matched with the learning disabled children on age, sex, IQ, and SES. The learning disabled children evidenced visual-motor problems under a visual-motor condition that was modeled after the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test. In three other conditions, the visual-perceptual, perceptual-conceptual, and motor-coordinative components of the visual-motor condition were examined separately. The results of these conditions indicated that the visual-perceptual and perceptual-conceptual components of the visual-motor system were intact for the learning disabled children; however, both the motor-coordinative component and the integration between the visual-perceptual and the motor-coordinative components were disturbed. The implications of these results for the visual-motor problems of learning disabled children were discussed.
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Mattison, R.E., McIntyre, C.W., Brown, A.S. et al. An analysis of visual-motor problems in learning disabled children. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 24, 51–54 (1986). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330501
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