Correlations between symbolic motor performance and achievement in school for children with minimal brain dysfunction.

TitleCorrelations between symbolic motor performance and achievement in school for children with minimal brain dysfunction.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1991
AuthorsCakirpaloglu, P, Radil, T
JournalPercept Mot Skills
Volume73
Issue3 Pt 1
Pagination952-4
Date Published1991 Dec
ISSN0031-5125
KeywordsAchievement, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Child, Humans, Kinesthesis, Mental Recall, Reaction Time, Symbolism
Abstract

Significant correlations were found between grades for reading, writing, and calculating and each child's individual mean reaction time for symbolic motor performance tasks with letters and numbers as stimuli for 240 elementary school boys with minimal brain dysfunction and in first to fourth classes in Prague (Czechoslovakia) and Skopje (Yugoslavia). For age(class)-matched groups of 382 healthy boys the correlations disappeared by the age of ten years. Similar results were noted for groups of boys in both cities.

DOI10.2466/pms.1991.73.3.952
Alternate JournalPercept Mot Skills
PubMed ID1724317