Gross motor skill performance in children with and without visual impairments—Research to practice

MO Wagner, PS Haibach, LJ Lieberman - Research in developmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to provide an empirical basis for teaching gross motor skills in
children with visual impairments. For this purpose, gross motor skill performance of 23, 6–12 …

Determinants of gross motor skill performance in children with visual impairments

PS Haibach, MO Wagner, LJ Lieberman - Research in developmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
Children with visual impairments (CWVI) generally perform poorer in gross motor skills when
compared with their sighted peers. This study examined the influence of age, sex, and …

Gross motor skills and sports participation of children with visual impairments

S Houwen, C Visscher, E Hartman… - Research quarterly for …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Gross motor skill performance of children with visual impairments and its association with
the degree of visual impairment and sports participation was examined. Twenty children with …

Motor activity in children who are blind or partially sighted

M Brambring - Visual Impairment Research, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Until now, no empirical data have been available on the quantitative restrictions to motor
activity in children with visual impairments even though many researchers and practitioners …

Training motor skills of children with low vision

E Aki, S Atasavun, A Turan… - Perceptual and motor …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of this study was to study the effectiveness of a motor training program for visually
impaired children. 40 children with low vision took part in the study. 20 children (10 boys, 10 …

Divergent development of gross motor skills in children who are blind or sighted

M Brambring - Journal of visual impairment & blindness, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
This empirical study compared the average ages at which four congenitally blind children
acquired 29 gross motor skills with age norms for sighted children. The results indicated …

Improvement of fine motor skills in children with visual impairment: An explorative study

AM Reimer, RFA Cox… - Research in …, 2011 - Elsevier
In this study we analysed the potential spin-off of magnifier training on the fine-motor skills of
visually impaired children. The fine-motor skills of 4-and 5-year-old visually impaired …

Motor skill performance of school‐age children with visual impairments

S Houwen, C Visscher, K Lemmink… - … Medicine & Child …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study was to examine the performance of children with visual impairments
(VI) aged 7 to 10 years on different types of motor skills. Furthermore, the association …

The motor development of sighted children and children with moderate low vision aged 8–13

D Bouchard, S Tetreault - Journal of Visual Impairment & …, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
A study of the motor skills of 60 children aged 8–13—30 who were sighted and 30 who had
moderate low vision—found that the children with low vision had poorer motor skills than did …

[PDF][PDF] A comparison of motor skills in Turkish children with different visual acuity

SA Uysal, T Düger - Fizyoterapy Rehabilitasyon, 2011 - dergipark.org.tr
Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess motor functions with objective data in children
with different visual acuity. Material and methods: The study included 30 children with low …