Children with Better Co-Ordination Are More Likely To Achieve

Children with Better Co-Ordination Are More Likely To Achieve

Young children with better eye-to-hand coordination are more likely to achieve higher scores for reading, writing and maths according to new research by the University of Leeds.

More than 300 children ages 4 to 11 took part in various computer tasks designed to measure eyeto-hand coordination, such as steering, taking aim and tracking objects on a computer screen.

The results revealed that the children who did better in the eye-to-hand co-ordination tasks tended to have higher academic attainment in reading, writing and maths.

In particular, those with the best performance in the ‘steering task’ were on average 9 months ahead of classmates who struggled.

The findings raise the question of whether schools should be doing more to give support to children who are clumsy.

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