Gross motor skill performance in children with and without visual impairments-Research to practice

Matthias O. Wagner; Pamela S. Haibach; Lauren J. Lieberman

doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2013.06.030

Gross motor skill performance in children with and without visual impairments-Research to practice

Matthias O. Wagner
, Pamela S. Haibach
, Lauren J. Lieberman

Kinesiology, Sport Studies & P E

SUNY Brockport

University of Konstanz
The College at Brockport, State University of New York

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to provide an empirical basis for teaching gross motor skills in children with visual impairments. For this purpose, gross motor skill performance of 23, 6-12 year old, boys and girls who are blind (ICD-10 H54.0) and 28 sighted controls with comparable age and gender characteristics was compared on six locomotor and six object control tasks using the Test of Gross Motor Development-Second Edition. Results indicate that children who are blind perform significantly (p<. .05) worse in all assessed locomotor and object control skills, whereby running, leaping, kicking and catching are the most affected skills, and corresponding differences are related to most running, leaping, kicking and catching component. Practical implications are provided.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3246-3252
Number of pages	7
Journal	Research in Developmental Disabilities
Volume	34
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2013.06.030
State	Published - Oct 2013

Keywords

Children who are blind
Gross motor skill performance
Test of Gross Motor Development-Second Edition
Visual impairments
Whole-part-whole method

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