Abstract
M.A. (Psychology)
Although recent research findings suggest that perceptualmotor
training in the education of the child with learning
problems is irrelevant and superfluous, clinicians have
maintained that this method has notable success.
The primary objective of the study was to explore the
consequences of perceptual-motor therapy on the academic
achievement, intellectual ability, and personality development
of the MBD child. The subjects used were children in
the aid classes of eight different schools. These children
had been classified by the school psychologists and doctors
as showing symptoms of MBD. A Solomon Four Group Design
was utilised in the experimental investigation. This
entailed the division of subjects into experimental and
control groups. These groups were further subdivided so
that half of each group received pre-testing and the other
half no pre-testing. All the subjects received posttesting.
Thus practice effect could be separated from
treatment effect. There were sixty five subjects in the
study, thirty two in the experimental group and thirty
three in the control group.