Evaluación de la integración visomotora en niños de inicial II y primero de básica de la Unidad Educativa Julio Maria Matovelle. Cuenca 2022

Abstract

Background: Visual-motor integration involves the coordination degree of eye movements, wich allow performing activities preceding handwriting. However, children may show difficulties in regard to their graph motor skills. Therefore, the need arises to assess the visual motor integration of children attending Julio Maria Matovelle School through the Beery – Buktenica VMI test, which detects probable alterations of visual and motor skills. Objective: To determine the level of visual-motor integration of the children in prechool II and Kindergarten at Julio Maria Matovelle School through the Beery - Buktenica VMI test. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional quantitative study. Frequency tables and percentages, the measures of central tendency that is, mean, median and mode were used to analyzed the variables. Results were shown trough statistical tables, graphs in Microsoft Excel 2013 and IBM SPSS version 22. Results: The target population of the study comprised 94 children. The results are as follows: 90.4% of them show levels of visual motor skills, while 7.4% high show high level and 1, 1% show low and very low in the level of visual-motor integration. Conclusions: Four-to six-year-old children at Julio Maria Matovelle School show average levels of visual motor skills. Male students show higher levels.