Relationships between perceptual responses and accident patterns in children: a pilot study.

Many studies have been done to define factors related to accident tendencies in children, but few related these tendencies to developmental lags in visual perception. This pilot study explored the possibility that such a relationship exists. Twelve Caucasian females from similar socioeconomic backgrounds and age ranges were administered the Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception. Performance on the perceptual test was compared to accident frequency levels for each child to determine whether or not a correlation between visual perceptual performance and accident frequency existed. Although statistically significant results were not obtained, the need for more definite research related to spatial relations, position in space, and figure ground perception was demonstrated.