RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOTOR CONTROL AND READING-WRITING PROCESS IN CHILDREN AGED 5 TO 7 YEARS

A.L. Robayo¹, A.C. Amaya²

¹Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, ²Universidad de la Rioja, Bogota, Colombia

Background: Motor control refers to the stabilization of the body in space, posture, and balance. This conception has been widely studied and defined by different researchers who have made and exposed different theories on this subject. For this reason, we must highlight the importance of development and motor control within the classroom that allows for generating basic skills and preparations for the development of reading and writing and school success fundamental for the acquisition of learning.

Purpose: This research pretends to explore motor control and reading-writing processes in children aged 5 to 7 years, as well as the relationship between these aspects.

Methods: The subject of the case study was selected by convenience sampling. The chosen subjects were boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 7, who were attending the Central League Against Epilepsy Foundation located in Bogotá, Colombia, with no history of epilepsy, with at least 5 complete motor development milestones in the EVANM. and a basic reading-writing level measured by the Magellan scale. The exclusion criteria were the refusal of the parents to participate in the research, not signing the informed consent, and the diagnosis of some mental or motor illness. The Spearman's Rho conversion coefficient was calculated for the two ordinal variables analyzed with SPSS v21. The methodology used is a non-experimental, descriptive, and correlational design.

Results: 30 children were recruited, the mean age was 6 years and the standard deviation was 0.83 years, 50% were men and 50% were women. The results obtained in this study show a positive correlation between the crawling process and reading-writing, in such a way that patients with less crawling in the EVANM test presented less reading-writing in the Magellan test, with a p <0.05 in Spearman's test.

Conclusions: The only significant correlation is between crawling and reading level, the other correlations are not significant. It is necessary carry out more interventional studies to confirm these results.

Implications: Results of motor skills tests should be taken in conjunction with literacy tests in children to assess possible preventive interventions.

Funding acknowledgements: None

Keywords:
Motor control
Reading-writing
Process

Topics:
Paediatrics
Primary health care
Education

Did this work require ethics approval? Yes

Institution: Central Ligue against epilepsy

Committee: Rioja University of Spain

Ethics number: 102