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| National Science and Technology Council | FED |
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The study aims to investigate the effects of different visuomotor training programs on children's visuomotor skills and handwriting performance.
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.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control group | No Intervention | regular kindergarten education | |
| Chinese characters-based visual-motor program | Experimental | visual perceptual motor activities using Chinese characters as activity materials. |
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| traditional visual-motor training program | Experimental | visual perceptual motor activities using commercial or self-designed toys and pencil-paper sheets as activity materials. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese character-based visuomotor training program | Behavioral | this program includes visual-perceptual-motor play, paper-pencil activities, and ipad games using Chinese character as activity materials |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| The Chinese Handwriting Test | the change of the handwriting performance | baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year |
| The Chinese character recognition Test | the change of the Chinese character recognition ability | baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year |
| The Chinese Handwriting Evaluation Form (preschool version) | the change of handwriting performance by kindergarten teacher's rating | baseline, after 12-week intervention |
| The Chinese Handwriting Evaluation Form (School-aged version) | the change of handwriting skills by teacher's rating | through study completion, an average of 1 year |
| The Battery of Chinese Basic Literacy | the change of reading and handwriting skills | through study completion, an average of 1 year |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Test of Visual Perceptual Skills-Fourth Edition (TVPS-4) | the change of visual perceptual skills | baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year |
| The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency-Second Edition (BOT-2) |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Yea-Shwu H Hwang, ScD | Contact | 886-62353535 | 5914 | yshwang@mail.ncku.edu.tw |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Yea-Shwu Hwang, ScD | National Cheng Kung University | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| National Cheng Kung University | Recruiting | Tainan | 701 | Taiwan |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
|---|---|---|---|
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| 28218589 | Background | Chang SH, Yu NY. Visual and Haptic Perception Training to Improve Handwriting Skills in Children With Dysgraphia. Am J Occup Ther. 2017 Mar/Apr;71(2):7102220030p1-7102220030p10. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2017.021311. |
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IPD are to be shared with other researchers
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| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D000381 | Agraphia |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D007806 | Language Disorders |
| D003147 | Communication Disorders |
| D019954 | Neurobehavioral Manifestations |
| D009461 | Neurologic Manifestations |
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The assessors are blinded to the assigned group of participants
| traditional visuomotor training program | Behavioral | this program includes play and paper-and-pencil activities, ipad games using commercial or self-designed stuffs as activity materials |
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the change of fine motor skills |
| baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year |
| The Berry-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration- Forth Edition (VMI) | the change of VMI | baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year |
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| D009422 | Nervous System Diseases |
| D000067559 | Specific Learning Disorder |
| D007859 | Learning Disabilities |
| D012816 | Signs and Symptoms |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
| D065886 | Neurodevelopmental Disorders |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |