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NCT Number: NCT05795738

Visual Perceptual Motor Training on Kindergarteners

The study aims to investigate the effects of different visuomotor training programs on children's visuomotor skills and handwriting performance.

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Key information

Conditions

Agraphia Communication Disorders Language Disorders Learning Disabilities Mental Disorders Nervous System Diseases Neurobehavioral Manifestations Neurodevelopmental Disorders Neurologic Manifestations Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Signs and Symptoms Specific Learning Disorder

Age range

5 year–6 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

National Cheng Kung University

Tainan, 701, Taiwan

Location status: Recruiting

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Kindergarten children who will study the first grade in coming September
  • Both parents are native Mandarin Chinese speakers

Exclusion criteria

  • A diagnosis of significant neurological, muscular, and skeletal system disorders
  • Visual or hearing problems that cannot be corrected to be normal
  • Genetic or chromosomal abnormality
  • Significant neurological, muscular, and skeletal damage to the trunk or upper extremities
  • moderate or severe intellectual disabilities

Treatment and study plan

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

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

Primary outcomes

  1. The Chinese Handwriting Test

    Time frame: baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year

    the change of the handwriting performance

  2. The Chinese character recognition Test

    Time frame: baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year

    the change of the Chinese character recognition ability

  3. The Chinese Handwriting Evaluation Form (preschool version)

    Time frame: baseline, after 12-week intervention

    the change of handwriting performance by kindergarten teacher's rating

  4. The Chinese Handwriting Evaluation Form (School-aged version)

    Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year

    the change of handwriting skills by teacher's rating

  5. The Battery of Chinese Basic Literacy

    Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year

    the change of reading and handwriting skills

Secondary outcomes

  1. Test of Visual Perceptual Skills-Fourth Edition (TVPS-4)

    Time frame: baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year

    the change of visual perceptual skills

  2. The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency-Second Edition (BOT-2)

    Time frame: baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year

    the change of fine motor skills

  3. The Berry-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration- Forth Edition (VMI)

    Time frame: baseline, after 12-week intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year

    the change of VMI

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Yea-Shwu H Hwang, ScD

CONTACT

[email protected]

886-62353535 ext. 5914

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

National Cheng-Kung University Hospital

Other

Collaborators

  • National Science and Technology Council

Registry information

Official study title

Effects of Different Visual-perceptual-motor Training Courses on Kindergarten Children

Important dates

Study start
2022
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Apr 3, 2023
Registry last updated
Mar 26, 2024

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