Open AccessPerceptual Motor Skills in Children and Pupils with Mild Intellectual Disabilities
Author(s) -
Jan Viktorin,
Lucie Loosová
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of preschool and elementary school education/multidisciplinary journal of school education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2543-7585
pISSN - 2084-7998
DOI - 10.35765/mjse.2020.0918.04
Subject(s) - perception , psychology , intellectual disability , intervention (counseling) , motor skill , developmental psychology , borderline intellectual functioning , cognition , psychiatry , neuroscience
This literature review analyzes eight specialized papers which focus on issues of the perceptual motor skills of children and pupils with mild intellectual disabilities. Children and pupils with mild intellectual disabilities have deficits in perceptual motor skills. The deficits of adaptive and intellectual skills of these children and pupils may be greater (mainly because of their conceptual and abstract reasoning) than their relative deficits of perceptual motor skills. Stronger perceptual motor skills in children and pupils with mild intellectual disabilities may be the target of school intervention as a means of alleviating problems in adaptive functions.