Weil M J, Amundson S J
Bellevue School District, Washington.
Am J Occup Ther. 1994 Nov-Dec;48(11):982-8. doi: 10.5014/ajot.48.11.982.
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the performance of children in kindergarten on the Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI) and their ability to copy letters legibly.
Sixty typically developing children in kindergarten aged 64 months to 75 months (30 girls and 30 boys) were administered the VMI and the Scale of Children's Readiness In PrinTing (SCRIPT). The SCRIPT requires children to copy 26 lower case letters and 8 upper case letters from a model.
A significant relationship was found between subjects' performance on the VMI and ability to copy letters legibly. In addition, as subjects' ability to copy the forms on the VMI increased, a concomitant increase in ability to copy letters was also found. There were no gender differences in performance on the VMI or on the SCRIPT:
The findings of this study suggest that most children in kindergarten similar to those in this study will be ready for handwriting instruction in the latter part of the kindergarten year.
本研究旨在探究幼儿园儿童在视觉 - 运动整合发育测试（VMI）中的表现与他们清晰抄写字母能力之间的关系。
对60名年龄在64个月至75个月之间的典型发育幼儿园儿童（30名女孩和30名男孩）进行了VMI测试和儿童印刷准备量表（SCRIPT）测试。SCRIPT要求儿童从一个模型中抄写26个小写字母和8个大写字母。
发现受试者在VMI上的表现与清晰抄写字母的能力之间存在显著关系。此外，随着受试者在VMI上复制图形能力的提高，其抄写字母的能力也相应提高。在VMI或SCRIPT测试中，性别之间没有表现差异。
本研究结果表明，大多数与本研究中类似的幼儿园儿童在幼儿园学年后期将准备好接受书写指导。
