Enhancing Eye-Hand Coordination with Therapy Intervention to Improve Visual-Spatial Abilities using ‘The Re-training Approach’ in Children with Down Syndrome: Three Case Studies
Eye-hand coordination and visual-spatial abilities are an integral part of a child’s development, since both skills are necessary for functional independence as well as for academic progress.
Purpose: This study is aimed at understanding the relationship between visual-spatial abilities and eye-hand coordination based on the ‘Re-training Approach’. An underlying assumption of this approach is that skills learned for one task can be generalised to other areas.
Method: Three children with Down syndrome were initially tested for eye-hand coordination, and the tests were repeated periodically throughout the intervention programme which comprised visual-spatial activities.
Results: The authors observed that there was a steady improvement in the eye-hand coordination as well as the visual-spatial abilities of children involved in the intensive therapy programme. This improvement manifested in the reduction of time taken to perform the coordination tests and in the errors made while performing the tests.
Keywords
Authors
How to Cite
Download Citation
License
Copyright © 2012 The Author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License By-NC-ND 4.0 that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access ).
Similar Articles
- Julia Mary Jansen-van Vuuren, Heather Michelle Aldersey, Training Needs of Community-based Rehabilitation Workers for the Effective Implementation of CBR Programmes , Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development: Vol. 29 No. 3 (2018): Autumn 2018
- Bilal Ahmad Khan, Wakar Amin Zargar, Shabir Ahmad Najar, Negotiating Future Uncertainty: Concerns of Mothers of Children with Down Syndrome in Kashmir, India , Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development: Vol. 29 No. 1 (2018): Spring 2018
- Sebestina Anita Dsouza, An Integrated Multimodal Intervention of Remedial and Adaptive Approaches in Secondary Dystonia of Hand: A Case Report , Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development: Vol. 24 No. 2 (2013): Summer
- Donald S Persons, Stigma, Learning and Inheritance: An Ecocultural Study of Adaptation and Resource use among Families of Children with Down Syndrome in Thailand , Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development: Vol. 28 No. 2 (2017): Summer 2017
- Pocholo B Trinidad, Litty M Shibu, Napoleon R Caballero, Ebrahim Rajab, Management of Undergraduate Community-Based Rehabilitation Programmes in the Philippines: A Cross-Sectional Survey , Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development: Vol. 31 No. 1 (2020): Spring 2020
- Nafisa Lira Huq, Tanya Jane Edmonds, Sally Baker, Lucy Busjia, Alexandra Devine, Kathy Fotis, Manjula Marella, Nicolas Goujon, Jill Keeffe, The Rapid Assessment of Disability – Informing the Development of an Instrument to Measure the Effectiveness of Disability Inclusive Development Through a Qualitative Study in Bangladesh , Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development: Vol. 24 No. 3 (2013): Autumn
- Fidelis Terhemen Iyor, Ajediran Idowu Bello, Integrating Traditional Bone-Setting and Orthopaedic Medicine Practices in the Management of Fractures in Nigeria: Community-Based Rehabilitation Model in Perspective , Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development: Vol. 33 No. 2: (Summer) - 2022
- Sunil Deepak, Franesca Ortali, Geraldine Mason Halls, Tulgamaa Damdinsuren, Enhbuyant Lhagvajav, Steven Msowoya, Malek Qutteina, Jayanth Kumar, Disability Data Collection in Community-based Rehabilitation , Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development: Vol. 27 No. 4 (2016): Winter 2016
- Sunil Deepak, Ládia Rufino dos Santos, Giampiero Griffo, Deolinda Bitencourt de Santana, Jayanth Kumar, Santosh Bapu, Organisations of Persons with Disabilities and Community-based Rehabilitation , Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development: Vol. 24 No. 3 (2013): Autumn
- Amina Mohamed, Manpreet Kaur Virdi, Janeki Roux, Danny Liu, Matthew Hunt, Sidhiprada Mohapatra, Community-Based Rehabilitation in Settings of Armed Conflict, Natural Disaster, or Mass Displacement: A Scoping Review , Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development: Vol. 33 No. 4 (2022): Winter
You may also start an advanced similarity search for this article.