Neuropsychological analysis of peculiarities of formation of graphomotor skills in primary school children

Abstract

Functions of serial organization of movements and actions and their role in the formation and development of graphomotor skills (writing in particular) in primary school children (193 pupils of 1st and 3dgrades) were investigated using traditional neuropsychological and new computerized methods. It allowed to trace the processes of automatization of graphomotor skill in normally developed children and to describe specific difficulties of graphomotor activity in children with learning disabilities.

Keywords

• children neuropsychology
• serial organization of movements and actions
• automatized skill
• graphomotor activity
• writing