The Effect of Selected Physical Activity on Eye-hand Coordination of Students with Dysgraphia

Students with dysgraphia are those who write very badly, despite their natural intelligence. Some scientists believe that student's dysgraphia is mostly caused by their lack of motor coordination. Coordination is the access plan of body and its organs in relation to environmental events and objects, and one of the most important problems of dysgraphia is the lack of coordination between eyes and hands. The present study investigated the effect of a period of selected physical activity on eye-hand coordination of students with dysgraphia. This study was carried out on 20 males, 12-13 year-old students in Minab city, Hormozgan province. The students were selected through available sampling and they were randomly divided into two groups. The treatment group performed the exercises with balls and rackets. Lincoln-Oseretsky (Osertsky-1950) test was used in the pretest and posttest. The data analyzed using independent t-test, Mann-Whitney test, paired t-test and Wilcoxon test. The results indicated that the selected program of physical activity improved the eye-hand coordination (P≤0.05) and the treatment group had better coordination in comparison to control group (P≤0.05). Therefore, it recommended that simple kicks of balls and rackets used in all schools, especially those who have students with dysgraphia.