Psychomotor efficacy of children with hearing disorders
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Thannhauser J., Borodulin-Nadzieja L., Buldanczyk A., Jurecka M.
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Scarce data coming from literature maintain that children with hearing disorders can be characteristic for many abnormalities of psychomotor development among which is motion pattern formation delay. Environmental and social standard conditions should be considered as well. The goal of these studies was the assessment of psychomotor efficacy in children with hearing disorders coming from various school environments: deaf children from Educational Centre for Deaf Children as well as children from integration Special School. The surveys were to answer the following questions:
a) How do sight and movement co-ordination, both hands co-ordination and hands and fingers dexterity in children with hearing disorders compare to those with normal hearing?
b) Is there any difference in psychomotor efficacy in relation to age and sex of thechildren?
c) Does the environment influence the development of discussed characteristics of psychomotor efficacy? The studies were carried on 163 children aged 7-15 years. Test results (Meile’s balls test, Roloff’s forks test, tower building test) led to the following conclusions:
1. Children with impaired hearing are characteristic for worse psychomotor efficacy in co-ordination and precision of hand movement compared to healthy children.
2.Psychomotor efficacy undergoes development with age and sex is not a differentiating factor.
3. Comparison of observed characteristics did not confirm the influence of the environment.
a) How do sight and movement co-ordination, both hands co-ordination and hands and fingers dexterity in children with hearing disorders compare to those with normal hearing?
b) Is there any difference in psychomotor efficacy in relation to age and sex of thechildren?
c) Does the environment influence the development of discussed characteristics of psychomotor efficacy? The studies were carried on 163 children aged 7-15 years. Test results (Meile’s balls test, Roloff’s forks test, tower building test) led to the following conclusions:
1. Children with impaired hearing are characteristic for worse psychomotor efficacy in co-ordination and precision of hand movement compared to healthy children.
2.Psychomotor efficacy undergoes development with age and sex is not a differentiating factor.
3. Comparison of observed characteristics did not confirm the influence of the environment.
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