Indian Journal of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy—An International Journal
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 4

Normative data of developmental test of Visual Motor Integration (VMI) for Chennai children

  • Author:
  • U. Ganapathy Sankar, M.G. Ramkumar
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 30 to 33

SRM College of Occupational Therapy, SRM University, SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur, 603 203, Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to establish normative data of the developmental test of Visual Motor Integration(VMI) for chennai children. To identify the influence of gender on the performance of VMI.

Primary investigator administered the developmental test of VMI on 500 subjects which were selected from regular school located in North,South and Central zones of the Chennai.

There was statistcallly significant difference (p<0.001) in performance on the VMI between each age group. It depicts that when the age increases child performances on VMI also increases. There is no statistically significant difference in gender performance on developmental test of VMI.

Norms produced in the study forms the cut off scores for the use of the developmental test of VMI as screening tool as well as outcome measures to find out effectiveness of therapy.