Fine motor and visual motor skills as a component of school readiness
| dc.contributor.author | Skelton, Heather | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Brownell, Marni (Community Health Sciences) Borton, Barb (Occupational Therapy) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Leclair, Leanne (Occupational Therapy) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-25T18:11:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-25T18:11:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.degree.discipline | College of Rehabilitation Sciences | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Science (M.Sc.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Understanding school readiness is of the utmost importance. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which fine motor/visual motor (FM/VM) skills are related to school readiness at a population level through: creating a FM/VM Index from Early Development Instrument (EDI) items; describing children with Vulnerable FM/VM skills; determining if Vulnerable FM/VM skills are related to readiness on other EDI constructs; and determining if the FM/VM Index provides information not provided by the EDI's Gross and Fine Motor (G&FM) Sub-Domain. A Delphi process and ROC curves identified an 11 questions FM/VM Index with a vulnerability cutoff of <80. Children with Vulnerable versus Not Vulnerable FM/VM skills were statistically different on a wide variety of child, environmental and health at birth variables. Logistic regressions for select EDI domains/sub-domains showed that better FM/VM skills decreased the odds of being Not Ready or Vulnerable on these domains/sub-domains. The addition of the FM/VM Index and G&FM Sub-Domain into these models provided a better model fit with the FM/VM Index models being generally preferable. Overall, this work suggests that FM/VM skills are an important skill set associated with school readiness and therefore need to be considered when evaluating school readiness. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | October 2017 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32379 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Fine motor | en_US |
| dc.subject | Visual motor | en_US |
| dc.subject | School readiness | en_US |
| dc.subject | Early Development Instrument | en_US |
| dc.title | Fine motor and visual motor skills as a component of school readiness | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |
| local.subject.manitoba | yes | en_US |