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J Junkala

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PubMed1982

Cognitive styles of students with cerebral palsy.

Cognitive style is frequently described in terms of performance on the Matching Familiar Figures Test. Because this test has a heavy visual perceptual loading its usefulness as a measure of cognitive style with cerebral palsied students, a population frequently characterized by ocular anomalies and visual perceptual deficits, may be questioned. The test and standardized tests of visual perception and motor accuracy were administered to 46 cerebral palsied students of normal intelligence. Chronological age was the major determiner of visual perceptual and matching performance. The matching data generally suggested that the cerebral palsied students' cognitive styles were qualitatively similar to those of nonhandicapped students, although the extraocular movements of some students appeared to affect the classifications of cognitive style to which they were assigned by the data.

Adult↗
PubMed1981

The effects of auditorally augmented feedback on the eye-hand coordination of students with cerebral palsy.

To explore the question of whether auditorally augmented feedback can improve the eye-hand coordination of individuals with cerebral palsy, 59 (cerebral-palsied) students (mean chronological age 14 years, 3 months) were pretested with the Southern California Motor Accuracy Test and then randomly assigned to three groups. Group 1 performed training exercises-tracing line drawings-while simultaneously receiving auditorally augmented feedback about their efforts. Group 2 performed the same training exercises without the augmented feedback. Group 3 served as controls. All subjects were post-tested with the Southern California Motor Accuracy Test, followed by a second post-test after a 3-month interval. At the first post-test, the performance of the feedback group was significantly superior to that of the other groups. At the second post-test, the performance patterns among the groups were essentially the same as the time of the first post-test, but between-group differences were no longer significant. The results of this study are discussed in both empirical and theoretical terms.

Adolescent↗