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Do 'clumsy' children have visual recognition problems?

H Sigmundsson·B Hopkins
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OBJECTIVE: Visual recognition by 8-year-old children with hand-eye co-ordination problems (HECP), and by a control group of children without such problems was tested using a task of visual closure. DESIGN: The task required the children to identify common objects from an incomplete visual presentation. RESULT: As predicted, it was found that the HECP children, who were designated as such solely on the basis of their motor difficulties, identified significantly fewer correct objects than their control counterparts. CONCLUSIONS: This finding raises the possibility that the visual processing problems of clumsy children contribute to, or even strongly determine, not only their movement problems but also their learning difficulties.

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H Sigmundsson, B Hopkins. 2005. Do 'clumsy' children have visual recognition problems?. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2214.2004.00463.x

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