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KAUFMAN, MAURICE – 1968
INJURY TO THE NERVOUS SYSTEM CAN RESULT IN DEFECTS OF FIGURE FORMATION SUCH AS LACK OF PRECISION OF FIGURE AND UNCERTAINTY AS TO WHICH IS FIGURE AND WHICH IS GROUND. IMPAIRMENT OF FIGURE GROUND PROCESSES MAY BE LIMITED TO ONE AREA OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION. DISTURBANCE IN FIGURE FORMATION MAY NOT RESULT IN PERCEPTION DISTURBANCES, DEPENDING…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Eye Hand Coordination, Learning Problems, Mental Retardation
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McKibbin, Elsie H. – American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1973
The purpose of this study is to explore the value of a perceptual-motor program using predominantly gross motor activities for children with developmental apraxia and deficits in tactile perception. (Author)
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Elementary School Students, Eye Hand Coordination, Kindergarten Children
Klein, Pnina S.; And Others – 1974
This study investigated the specific learning abilities and general adjustment of 50 children, 5-14 years of age, who had pyloric stenosis (PS) in infancy, compared to 44 siblings and 50 matched control children. PS involves a period of brief starvation in early infancy, unrelated to socioeconomic conditions and is surgically correctable. The…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Behavior Problems, Body Weight, Children
Kelly, Evelyn B. – 1996
This fastback, a booklet bound "left-handed," is designed to help educators become aware of the problems faced by left-handed students in school and to suggest ways that many of the problems might be solved. Following an introduction discussing a personal experience with left-handedness, the booklet continues with a brief history of the treatment…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Children, Classroom Environment