Second Graders' Grapho-Motor Skill Learning and Verbal Learning: The Effects of Socio-Educational Factors.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Children from low socioeconomic status (SES) families, and in particular, those with a lower level of maternal education, show lower fine-motor skills and lower vocabulary scores than their SES peers whose mothers have a higher level of education. Furthermore, low SES children frequently have difficulties in reading and spelling. These difficulties are attributed to deficits in the acquisition of skills through practice, such as those required for developing visual-motor routines, alongside deficits in the intentional acquisition of knowledge, such as those required in verbal learning. The aim of the current study was to test the effect of two background factors: low maternal education (ME) and risk of reading and spelling difficulties on practice-dependent learning of

SUBMITTER: Hollander C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8547519 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature