A Study of Children with Learning Disablities and Sensorimotor Problems or Let's Not Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater

The 1986 position statement by the Board of Trustees fo the Council for Learning Disabilities called for a moratorium on the measurement and training of perceptual and perceptual-motor function as a part of services for children with learning disabilities (LD). Estimates in the literature, however, indicate that approximately 13% of children with LD exhibit motor deficits. Such children with motor or perceptual-motor problems are of ten …