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The Relationship of Motor Coordination, Visual Perception, and Executive Function to the Development of 4–6-Year-Old Indian Preschoolers’ Visual Motor Integration Skills
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GANAPATHY SANKAR.U, MONISHA.R, R.SURESH
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To execute the functional skills with efficiency there is a need for intact Visual motor integration (VMI) and it is quoted as the maximum ability of a child to execute the tasks that demands motor coordination. In the phases of childhood development VMI is considered as a vital ability, which is allied with the recital of loads of activities of daily living tasks. In the current study we have utilized Beery Developmental Test and executive function tasks. The study is aimed to explore the VMI development and factors related to it like visual perception, coordination of motor tasks and executive functions of 50 school children from 4 to 6 years. Results declare that visual motor integration enhanced and perks up at 5 years and deterioration recorded at 6 years. Coordination of motor skill and cognitive skills were correlated with visual motor integration and they play an important role in the development of VMI for children at 4 to 6 years. When examined in detail it has also be suggested that working memory is not having any association with VMI and among 4 to 6 years preschoolers inhibitory control was related to VMI. The study concludes that VMI in children at the age group of 4 to 6 years continuously fluctuates and it’s not stable in this study. The factors reported in children at different age bands provides guidance to innumerous health care professionals to design treatment protocols to enhance children’s VMI skills in their early childhood years.
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Motor coordination, visual perception, Visual motor integration, preschoolers
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.12.04.543
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