Investigation of Visual Motor Integration Skills in Children With Speech Sound Problems

Ercan, Zülfiye Gül
Yilmaz, Şule
Taş, Memduha
Aral, Neriman

Faculty of Education Preschool Education Department, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
Faculty of Health Sciences, Audiology Department, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
Faculty of Health Sciences, Child Development, Ankara University, Turkey

Zülfiye Gül Ercan, Faculty of Education Preschool Education Department, Trakya University, Mehmet Akif Ersoy Egitim Binası, Kosova, Yerleşkesi, Edirne 22100, Turkey. Email: [email protected]

Perceptual and Motor Skills 123(3):p 624-636, December 2016. | DOI: 10.1177/0031512516664894

The aim of this study was to investigate visual motor integration skills in children with speech sound disorders compared with age-matched controls. Sixty-five children aged from 5 to 6½ years old (68% males, 32% females; M age = 5.4, SD = 0.5) participated in the study. Thirty-one of them had speech sound problems, and 34 were children without any problem in their speech. The Ankara Articulation Test for evaluating speech sound skills and the Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration with its supplemental tests of Visual Perception and Motor Coordination were used in the study. Visual Motor Integration, Visual Perception, and Motor Coordination scores of children with speech sound disorders were significantly lower than those of controls.