Analysis of early childhood occupational therapy intervention in a group of clients with low graphomotor skills

J. Except. People 2017, 6(1):93-106

Analysis of early childhood occupational therapy intervention in a group of clients with low graphomotor skills

Barbora Kováčová¹, Ivana Lištiaková²: ¹ Catholic University in Ružomberok, Faculty of Education, Department of Pedagogy and Psychology, Hrabovská cesta 1, 034 01 Ružomberok, Slovak Republic; ² Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Education, Institute of Social Studies and Therapeutic Education, Račianska 59, 813 34 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Early childhood occupational therapy is considered a comprehensive form of help, which is provided for children with risk development, children with potentially risk development and children with specific disabilities within the systems of their families. The presented paper comprises of the analysis of an occupational therapy intervention, a specifically constructed programme of occupational therapy that was designed for clients at the age of 5 to 6 with low graphomotor skills. In the methodological part of the article, the authors present statistically significant differences in data before and after the realization of the occupational therapy programme. As part of the verification we chose two standardized tests: the first one used was F-test, then Student's t-test comparing the means of two samples during pre- and post- assessment testing. Drawing from the analysis of the results of the long-term occupational therapy intervention, it can be stated that the conducted programme is useful and meaningful as it was proven by the factors of comparison in the test and re-rest.

Keywords: Research, developmentally oriented occupational therapy; graphomotor skills

Grants and funding:

The paper is dedicated to the following project: "Analýza potrieb sociálnej služby v oblasti včasnej intervencie v podmienkach Slovenska" (APVV-14-0646)

Published: June 11, 2017 Show citation

Kováčová, B., & Lištiaková, I. (2017). Analysis of early childhood occupational therapy intervention in a group of clients with low graphomotor skills. Journal of Exceptional People, 6(10), 93-106

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