Developmental Test of Visual–Motor Integration (VMI): An Effective Outcome Measure for Handwriting Interventions for Kindergarten, First-Grade, and Second-Grade Students?
| Autor: | Beth Pfeiffer, Tammy Murray, Andrew Paoletti, Eugene Brusilovskiy, Sheryl Eckberg Zylstra, Beverly Moskowitz |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Occupational therapy
Male medicine.medical_specialty Handwriting Departments education Psychological intervention behavioral disciplines and activities Developmental psychology Occupational Therapy Intervention (counseling) Outcome Assessment Health Care medicine Humans Child Significant difference Outcome measures Test (assessment) Child Preschool Physical therapy Female Psychology Visual motor integration human activities Psychomotor Performance |
| Popis: | We determined whether a widely used assessment of visual–motor skills, the Beery–Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual–Motor Integration (VMI), is appropriate for use as an outcome measure for handwriting interventions. A two-group pretest–posttest design was used with 207 kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade students. Two well-established handwriting measures and the VMI were administered pre- and postintervention. The intervention group participated in the Size Matters Handwriting Program for 40 sessions, and the control group received standard instruction. Paired and independent-samples t tests were used to analyze group differences. The intervention group demonstrated significant improvements on the handwriting measures, with change scores having mostly large effect sizes. We found no significant difference in change scores on the VMI, t(202) = 1.19, p = .23. Results of this study suggest that the VMI may not detect changes in handwriting related to occupational therapy intervention. |
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