VISUAL PERCEPTION OF THE CHILDREN WITH PLEXUS BRACHIALIS DAMAGE – ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT

• Main Authors: Dragana M. KLJAJIKJ, Sanja M. TRGOVCHEVIKJ, Radmila M. NIKIKJ
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Special Education and Rehabilitation 2012-03-01
• Series: Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation
• Subjects: plexus brachialis; visual percep­ti­on; somatopedic treatment
• Online Access: http://jser.fzf.ukim.edu.mk/files/PDF%201-2%202012/19-30%20DEFEKTOLOSKA%20-%20Dragana%20Kljaik.pdf

Interpersonal communication, psychosocial and mental development of personality and its all other functions take place through the motor control. The most common neurological syndrome is a type of peripheral paresis/paralysis of plexus bracialis, which in most cases occurs at birth and significantly compromises the growth and development of the upper extremities and affects the psychomotor performance. The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of visual perception in children with lesion of plexus brachialis and the effect of the somatopedic treatment over the level of increase of the visual perception. The study sample was consisted of 60 preschool children accommodated at the Rehabilitation Centre “Dr. Miroslav Zotović” in Belgrade (experimental group) and examiners that followed regular checkups and had discontinuity in their therapy (control group). For the research purposes, we used The Test for Visual Perception Assessment. By analyzing the results, we concluded that in both, in the first and the second measuring there was a statistically significant correlation between the experimental and the control groups (I measuring: p<0.001, r = 0.408; II measuring: p <0.001, r = 0.593).