THE REMEDIATION OF CLUMSINESS .2. IS KINAESTHESIS THE ANSWER

The paper reports the second of two studies designed to evaluate the e ffectiveness of the Kinaesthetic Training Programme (Laszlo and Bairst ow, 1985) for children with movement difficulties. Three groups of 12 children were matched on age, IQ and sex as well as degree pf kinaesth etic and motor impairment. One group received the Laszlo training, ano ther received a training programme designed to avoid explicit referenc e to kinaesthesis and the third group received no training, Children r eceiving no intervention failed to show a change in performance. By co ntrast, the motor competence of both groups of treated children improv ed significantly: There was no advantage for the Laszlo trained group. It seems that in designing a remediation programme for clumsy childre n. the way that training is presented is as important as its actual co ntent.