Purpose: To verify the efficacy of a perceptual and visual-motor skill intervention program for students with dyslexia. Methods: The participants were 20 students from third to fifth grade of a public elementary school in Marília, São Paulo, aged from 8 years to 11 years and 11 months, distributed into the following groups: Group I (GI; 10 students with developmental dyslexia) and Group II (GII...

Purpose. To determine if spectacle corrected and uncorrected astigmats show reduced performance on visual motor and perceptual tasks. Methods. Third through 8th grade students were assigned to the low refractive error control group (astigmatism < 1.00 D, myopia < 0.75 D, hyperopia < 2.50 D, and anisometropia < 1.50 D) or bilateral astigmatism group (right and left eye ≥ 1.00 D) based on cyclopl...

with other studies demonstrating that although PA influences exploratory motor behaviors (and covert attention) in neglect, they do not necessarily result in changes in perceptual biases (Dijkerman et al., 2003; Ferber et al., 2003; Sarri et al., 2006, 2010; for a review, see Striemer and Danckert, 2010a). For a similar dissociation between improved attention and bisection performance following...

Interfaces which are based on free physical movement within a space (for example, relying on gesture recognition technology) pose many questions for interface designers, some of which are identified in the scenario. One potential advantage for systems such as the MagicBoard, which are based on existing, familiar physical artefacts is that interaction with the board is by means of well developed...

There is accumulating evidence from behavioral, neurophysiological, and neuroimaging studies that the acquisition of motor skills involves both perceptual and motor learning. Perceptual learning alters movements, motor learning, and motor networks of the brain. Motor learning changes perceptual function and the sensory circuits of the brain. Here, we review studies of both human limb movement a...

Developmental coordination disorders (DCD) affect approximately 6% of school aged children and significantly impair their activities of daily living and their academic performance. These impairments are not explicable by age, IQ or neurological condition.1,2 Some studies suggest that deficits in motor coordination among children with DCD could be related to sensory processing difficulties (SPD)...

Handwriting difficulty is one of the main issues among school children, especially for those with motor coordination issues. The aim this systematic review to evaluate effectiveness occupational therapy interventions in handwriting components children Current research articles were systematically searched according PRISMA guidelines. Two hundred and sixty-eight (n=268) identified; however, only...