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Visuospatial Difficulties and Clumsiness: On the Interpretation of Conjoined Deficits
Author(s) -
Henderson Sheila E.,
Barnett Anna,
Henderson Leslie
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1994.tb02305.x
Subject(s) - psychology , perception , uncorrelated , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , visual perception , audiology , medicine , statistics , mathematics , neuroscience
Abstract Sixteen children with motor difficulties and 16 controls, matched on age, gender and verbal I.Q. , were assessed on the Test Of Motor Impairment, various graphic tasks and a measure of visuospatial discrimination. Poor perceptual and motor performance tended to co‐occur but contrary to the visuospatial deficit account of clumsiness these abilities were uncorrelated even when attention was restricted to the less proficient children. There was no tendency for the control group's superiority in graphic reproduction to diminish when visual feedback was withheld. Some suggestions are offered concerning more appropriate methods for framing and testing causal deficit hypotheses.