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Stanika DIKIC, Branka ESKEROVIC, Vesna VUCINIC

SUCCES AT SCHOOL IN VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN

      The research included 200 visually impaired children of primary school during the period from 1992 to 1996. By means of adequate instruments we have tested the relation between the success at school of partially seeing children and hyperkinetical behavior, active and passive vocabulary richness, visuel-motoric coordination and the maturity of handwriting. Besides the already known factors (intellectual level, specific learning disturbances, emotional and neurotic disturbances, cultural deprivation), the success in class depends very much on the intensity of hyperkinetical behavior as well as its features: unstable attention, impulsiveness and hyperactivity. Visual-motor coordination eye-hand and the maturity of handwriting have a strong influence on their success at school.

            Key words. Visually impaired children, success at school, hyperkinetical behavior, active and passive vocabulary, and maturity of handwriting, visual-motor coordination.