CLUMSY children don’t just have problems with their coordination. Their brains also have difficulty processing what they see.
Hermundur Sigmundsson at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and his team tested the visual abilities of 13 children who had performed poorly at coordination tasks. The visual tests involved picking out patterns in a jumbled image and spotting groups of dots travelling in the same direction in a sea of random movement. The clumsy children did worse than a control group in both tests, according to a report to be published in Behavioural Brain Research.
