幼児期における身体的不器用さに及ぼす視覚情報に関する検討

Examination of visual information affected to physical awkwardness in early childhood

Masuda Takahito

広島大学大学院教育学研究科紀要. 第三部, 教育人間科学関連領域

Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part 3, Education and human science

Over years researchers have suggested that physical awkwardness is associated with perceptual deficits. In attempting to tackle the underlying perceptual causes of physical awkwardness, two groups of researchers stand out; the work on perceptual motor difficulties and the work that stressed the proprioceptive difficulties children with physical awkwardness experience. The purpose of this study is to examine whether young children with physical awkwardness are more dependent on vision for constructing movements than young children without physical awkwardness preliminarily. In addition to this question, role of visual feedback of the hand and of visual specification of the goal was examined. Participants were assessed by Movement Assessment Battery for Children and 7 5-year-old children with physical awkwardness (AWK group) and age-matched controls (CON group) were selected. The task was to pick beads, one at a time, from one cup and carry them to another cup. With the aid of roof, visual information about performing hand and the cup and beads was manipulated. The results showed that AWK groups made movements that were both more slow and more variable than those of CON groups. The withdrawal of visual information affected both groups of 5-year-old children in similar ways.

幼児期

身体的不器用さ

視覚情報

手先の動き

earlv childhood

physical awkwardness

visual information

manual movements

Education [ 370 ]

jpn

広島大学大学院教育学研究科

国立情報学研究所

[ISSN] 1346-5562

[NCID] AA11625039