Study of visual difficulties in children with cerebral palsy

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25381313
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Special needs education
• Research Institution: Fukuoka University of Education
• Principal Investigator: Ohira Dan 福岡教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (30322283)
• Research Collaborator: OKAMURA Hiroshi ; KUBO Yuma ; HATANO Ryou ; YOSHIDA Suzuka ; YANAGIHARA Midori ; TAGAWA Risa ; KUROKAWA Miki ; AZUMA Tomomi
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 脳性まひ / 視知覚 / 視覚運動協調 / 構成行為 / 階層的複合刺激 / 易部分反応性 / 質問紙調査

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We studied visual difficulties in children with cerebral palsy. It was suggested that children with cerebral palsy had the sensitivity to local components of stimuli in hierarchical processing and it was dependent on size (visual angle), eccentricity, solidity, duration, and series of the stimuli. Particularly, the sensitivity to local components of stimuli was not showed under the global preferential size condition but under the local preferential size condition. Based on this perceptual process, difficulties of visual-motor and / or constructional performance will be showed. Having surveys with children in special needs education schools, we showed structured models of difficulties of visual perception, visual-motor performance, and / or constructional performance in the form of simple assessment sheets.

Free Research Field

特別支援教育