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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Pediatr.
Sec. Pediatric Occupational Therapy
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fped.2025.1531192
Clinical Value of Beery Visual-Motor Integration and Beery VMI Supplemental Tests in Chinese Preschoolers: A Modified Replication Cross-Sectional Study
Provisionally accepted- School of Rehabilitation, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
Objective: Previous studies have indicated that visual-motor performance was is affected by culture cultural variations. The objectives of this This study were aimed to examine if there was a differences between the proportion of children with poor visual-motor integration( VMI) performance in published population norms and with that in the sample population norms of this study and to assess the predictive value of the visual perception(, VP) and motor coordination(, MC) scores in explaining VMI variance in Chinese preschoolers.Methods: A random sample of 421 children ageds 3.0 to -6.11 years (mean age, 4.51±0.93) participated in this study. The Beery VMI, VP, and MC were administered in sequence by qualified raters.The standard scores of VMI in all age groups of this study were significantly better than those in U.S. norms. Overall, 61 (14.5% of the total sample) and 6 (1.4% of the total sample) children did poorly in the VMI test children using study population norms and published population norms, separatelyrespectively. The proportion of children with poor VMI performance using published norms was significantly reduced lower compared with that using study sample population norms (p<0.001). Results of the multiple Multiple regression analysis showed that VP and MC were significantly related to the VMI (VP: β=0.185, p<0.001; MC: β=0.400, p<0.001) and 25.0% (F=69.571, dF=2, p<0.001) variance of VMI could be explained by VP and MC.Our findings support that the effects of culture effects should be considered when interpreting the results of Beery VMI using published norms, especially used in poor performance diagnosis. Our Ffindings further support that three tests should be assessed individually during the visual perception examination regardless of cultural context. Chinese preschoolerspreschooler--based norms need to be established in future investigations to determine the diagnostic value of the Beery VMI.
Keywords: visual perception1, visual-motor integration2, culture variation3, motor coordination4, Chinese preschoolers5 visual perception, Visual motor integration, culture variation
Received: 20 Nov 2024; Accepted: 17 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 TANG, Xu, Wang and Ao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Lijuan Ao, School of Rehabilitation, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
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