The present study was undertaken to study the effects of aerobic and rhythmic training on hand eye coordination of children with deafand dumb disorder. Randomly forty five female deaf and dumb school going students aged 12–16 years were selected and divided into three groups and each group consists of fifieen subjects. Group A (Aerobic Group) was chosen to perform exercise like walking, jogging, running, zig-zag steps etc. and group II (Rhythmic Group) perform exercises like jumping Jack, Clapping, Alternate toe touch, side to side walk, free hand counting exercises etc with music. Whereas control group did not participate in any program except their daily routine. Experimental groups were imparted 45 to 60 minutes of training 4 times a week for duration of8 weeks. Measurement ofhand eye coordination was taken at the beginning and after the experimental period of eight weeks. H and eye coordination was measured by alternate hand wall toss test and scores was recorded in number of successful catches in a 30 second period. To analyze data descriptive statistics and the analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) at 0.05 level of significance was applied and showed significant difference was found in hand eye coordination. Post hoc mean comparison showed rhythmic group had significant difference with aerobic and control groups whereas aerobic groups showed insignificant difference with control group.
Aerobic activity, Rhythmic activity and Hand eye coordination
