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Walton, Howard N.; And Others – 1976
This paper reports an investigation of the effectiveness of vision screening by the Modified Telebinocular Technique (MTT) when compared to the more cumbersome but highly valid and reliable Modified Clinical Technique (MCT). Data on 102 school children were collected using the MCT. The same children were then given the MTT to establish comparison…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Pupil Personnel Services, Vision
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Rouse, Michael W.; Ryan, Julie B. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Looks at vision problems in the areas of visual acuity, visual skills efficiency, and visual perceptual-motor development, and points out symptoms of each that children might exhibit. Suggests things teachers might do to help. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Perceptual Motor Learning, Reading Instruction, Teacher Role
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Rogow, Sally; Rathwell, David – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1994
This study, involving 20 children (ages 6-12) with legal blindness or partial sight, explored the relationships between ability to read and performance on tasks which require the manipulation of figure/ground relations. Significant differences were found between fluent readers and poor readers/nonreaders on four of the six tasks. No age…
Descriptors: Age, Elementary Education, Partial Vision, Perception Tests
Jackson, Richard M. – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1983
Some cautions regarding the early educational uses of optical aids with visually impaired children are suggested, based on widely held assumptions and recent findings in the fields of perception and reading. The change from the sight conservation era to one advocating the maximum use of remaining vision is traced. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Education, Interprofessional Relationship, Low Vision Aids
Gallahue, David L. – 1983
Perceptual-motor functioning is a cyclic process involving: (1) organizing incoming sensory stimuli with past or stored perceptual information; (2) making motor (internal) decisions based on the combination of sensory (present) and perceptual (past) information; (3) executing the actual movement (observable act) itself; and (4) evaluating the act…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Motor Development, Movement Education
Sexton, Larry C.; Treloar, James H. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1979
Explored the relationships among visual and auditory perception, academic aptitude, sex, and school achievement. Results indicate visual perception added significantly to prediction of achievement beyond that available through knowledge of a participant's sex and academic aptitude. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Auditory Perception, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students