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Jani, Subhash N. – Academic Therapy, 1983
Resistance applied to activities of rocking, creeping, and walking as a means to increase visual attention of students who are easily distracted is described. The resistance activities are said to result in improvement of gross motor coordination, oculomotor control, memory processes, and untimately, greater efficiency in academic learning. (CL)
Descriptors: Attention, Learning Disabilities, Perceptual Motor Learning, Physical Activities
Och, Mary F. – Academic Therapy, 1973
Discussed is use of the trampoline to remediate perceptual handicaps in learning disabled children. (DB)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities, Perceptual Development, Perceptual Handicaps
Reed, Martha; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1978
Described is a perceptual motor therapy program which offers an interdisciplinary treatment and training approach to boys, ages 9 through 12 years, with perceptual-motor dysfunction and accompanying problems of academic difficulties and social and emotional adjustment. (SBH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Emotional Adjustment, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Disabilities
Cahn, Lorynne; Hodges, Joan – Academic Therapy, 1973
The importance of including an occupational therapist in an interdisciplinary team to assess learning disabilities is demonstrated with the case of an 8-year-old boy who was evaluated and diagnosed as having severe reading disabilities and perceptual dysfunction. (MC)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities
