A STUDY OF VISUAL MOTOR SKILLS OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

Seda Bektaş, Zülfiye Gül Ercan

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The study goal is to analyze visual-motor skills of special education needs and variables that are considered to affect visual-motor skills, including age, gender, disability type, family kind, and number of children in the family. It was a descriptive model with 140 special education needs in Edirne territory Individual information form and Wide Range Assessment of Visual Motor Ability (WRAVMA) Test which was developed by Wayne Adams and David Sheslow in 1995 and adapted by Bektaş and Ercan (2021) were accustomed to collect facts. Study facts were analysed by means of a statistics pack program. Study results indicate that mean scores of children with special needs in WRAVMA are 11.21 in the drawing sub-test, 52.09 in the matching sub-test and 53.01 in pegboard sub-test. Study findings indicate that children’s visual-motor skills are not correlated with their age, diagnosis (p>0.05), but they are correlated with age in the matching sub-test, family kind in drawing and matching sub-tests and number of children in the family in matching and pegboard sub-tests (p0.05).

 

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special education, children with special needs, visual perception, visual-motor integration, motor coordination

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