Journal article
An Eye-Tracking Method for Directly Assessing Children's Visual-Motor Integration
Physical therapy, Vol.99(6), pp.797-806
06/01/2019
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/pzz027
PMID: 30806663
Abstract
Background Visual-motor integration is an integral component of many adaptive behaviors and has been linked to school readiness. In young school-age children, visual-motor integration is typically assessed with the Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration (Beery VMI), a standardized instrument that measures children's ability to copy 2-dimensional forms. The Beery VMI is scored according to children's final written product, but does not directly measure the process of visual-motor integration that underlies children's form copying.
Objective We describe a new way of directly assessing visual-motor integration in real time. We demonstrate how head-mounted eye-tracking technology for young children can be used to describe the dynamics of visual-motor integration when children copy forms.
Design This study used a cross-sectional design.
Methods Typically developing kindergarten children (N=20) were tested as they wore an eye-tracker while performing the Beery VMI.
Results Participants' success (b=-0.66; SE=0.08; Cohen f(2)=1.11) and their efficiency in visual (b=0.29; SE=0.02; Cohen f(2)=0.55) and motor (b=0.12; SE=0.01; Cohen f(2)=0.90) processes during form copying decreased as the stimulus complexity increased.
Limitations A small convenience sample was used to determine proof of concept. A larger, more representative sample is necessary to provide generalizable results.
Conclusions The new methods used here offer the possibility of more fine-grained assessments of eye-hand coordination in typically developing children and children with such clinical conditions as dysgraphia and developmental coordination disorder.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- An Eye-Tracking Method for Directly Assessing Children's Visual-Motor Integration
- Creators
- Nicholas E. Fears - Tulane UniversityBrooke C. Bailey - Tulane UniversityBlair Youmans - Tulane UniversityJeffrey J. Lockman - Tulane University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physical therapy, Vol.99(6), pp.797-806
- DOI
- 10.1093/ptj/pzz027
- PMID
- 30806663
- NLM abbreviation
- Phys Ther
- ISSN
- 0031-9023
- eISSN
- 1538-6724
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ Press
- Number of pages
- 10
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Health, Sport, and Human Physiology
- Record Identifier
- 9985219294902771
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