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A Study Of The Relationship Between Age And Performance On Computer -Assisted Rehabilitation Tasks For Children, Sanford Paul Martin Jr. Jan 2000

A Study Of The Relationship Between Age And Performance On Computer -Assisted Rehabilitation Tasks For Children, Sanford Paul Martin Jr.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between performance by children on computerized rehabilitation tasks, age and standardized assessment instruments. It was hypothesized that children's performance would differ by age on standardized assessment instruments and computer tasks developed for rehabilitation of attention, visual/perceptual and visual memory skills.;Two hundred five children from three schools in Chesapeake, Virginia, completed the Benton Visual Retention Test - Administration C, the Trail Making Test (B), and six computer tasks. Significant correlation was found between age, and both assessment instruments as well as five of the computer tasks. Standardized instruments correlated with one of …