Answer/Quote: “…conclude
that the value of perceptual training, especially those programs often used in
schools, has not been clearly established. If he concluded that such training
lacks solid support, he may begin to question the purchase of attractively
packaged materials which some companies offer teachers along with
unsubstantiated claims concerning their merits, the practice of providing
perceptual-motor training to all school children in the name of readiness
training, and the assumption that a lack of perceptual-motor adequacy causes a
considerable amount of academic failure.” P. 476.
Comment: One of the values of professional journals
is their research into fads of which education has had many. How much money and
wasted student time went into the fad of using “attractively packaged”
perceptual-motor training materials to prevent reading failure? RayS.
Title: “Visual-Motor
Processes: Can We Train them?” D Hammill, L Goodman and JL Wiederholt. The Reading Teacher (February 1974), 469-477.
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