University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 28, 1989
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Youth learn movement skills with help from KU students
by Marian Weeks Kansan staff writer
Creating successes for children is the task of the staff of the Perceptual Motor Clinic at Robinson Center
The clinic helps 4½ to 8½-year-old children coordinate motor skills such as balance, body awareness, vision, coordinated movement of the left and right sides of the body, fine hand movements and gross body movements such as hopping, skipping and running.
A child who has trouble hitting a
During a session at the Perception Clinic at Robinson Center, 4-year-old Robble Vernon concentrates on a tennis ball as part of a visual perception therapy.
Open from 4 until 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, the clinic is staffed by three graduate students in adaptive physical education and 29 therapists who are upper-level physical education students.
"I'm learning how to balance. I'm learning gymnastics. I'm learning to play basketball. I'm learning how to balance bean bags on my head. And I'm learning how to climb ropes." Swanson said.
Shauna Swanson,7, said the staff was successful in its goals.
Swanson, dotted with the aftermath of chickenpox, said she used to have problems with balance and climbing ropes.
That was five semesters ago, said Swanson, who had just finished a game of indoor baseball with six student therapists. Swanson and the rest were running and were red-faced from running in the final moments of the game.
"I'm learning how to play baseball to throw the ball and to hit the ball," Swanson said.
"It's not guesswork after doing an evaluation." Anderson said. Evaluation is a balance problem, for example, was caused by an inner ear problem. If so, instead of starting with spinning, the therapist might rock the child in a hammock and guide the child in his eyes to orient himself in space.
"You get really relaxed. They have good therapists here," said Swanson, who had just finished three minutes of relaxation exercises. Swanson's therapist, Kathy Lambrecht, Lawrence senior, ends each half-hour therapy session with relaxation exercises.
Doug Anderson, Salina graduate student and a student supervisor at the 20-year-old clinic, said the staff was working to develop a curriculum designed to strengthen motor skills.
ball would be given a large bat and ball to use until he has, perhaps, 100 successes hitting the ball. Anderson said. Then a smaller bat or ball may be used. The bats are designed to help the child generalize the motif skill to new situation.
When children improve their motor skills, grades and achievements often improve across the board. Anderson said.
And the younger the child, the more motor development is linked to self-concept and confidence. he said. Nevertheless, children $\textcircled{1}$ with perceptual motor problems often excel in other areas. Anderson said.
"Most of the kids are real verbal," Anderson said. "They've had to get their point across in other ways."
One child at the clinic who had trouble batting a ball was in the top 5 percent of his class and of the state in baseball competition in a state geometry contest.
Wally Parish. St. John graduate student and institute director of the clinic, said that, theoretically, the course for learning was movement.
"We think that all learning begins with movement. And movement begins in utero (in the uterus)," he said.
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