%0 Journal Article
%T Investigating the Visual-Motor Integration Skills of 60-72 Month Children from High and Low Socio- Economic Status As Regard Age Factor
%A Z¨¹lfiye G¨¹l Ercan
%A Emine Ahmetoglu
%A Neriman Aral
%J International Education Studies
%D 2011
%I 
%R 10.5539/ies.v4n3p100
%X This study aims to define whether age creates any differences in the visual-motor integration skills of 60- 72 months old children at low and high socio- economic status. The study was conducted on a total of 148 children consisting of 78 children representing low socio- economic status and 70 children representing high socio- economic status in the city center of Edirne. The Beery- Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration (VMI- 5th) which was developed by Beery- Buktenica (2004) and of which validity and reliability studies were made by Ercan and Aral (2011) after being translated into Turkish was used. It¡¯s reported that both the age and the status of being at low and high socio-economic status create a meaningful difference in the visual-motor integration, visual perception and motor integration of 60-72 months old children at low and high socio-economic status (p<.05) while visual-motor integration mean score is higher for 66- 72 months old children at high socio- economic status.
%U http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ies/article/view/9326