A COMPARATIVE STUDY CONCERNING THE ASSESSMENT OF OBJECT MANIPULATION AND ITS VISUAL-MOTOR INTEGRATION IN CHILDREN AGED 3- 6, BASED ON THE PDMS - 2 ASSESSMENT SCALE

Abstract

This paper tries to be a contribution to the improvement of psychomotor development in
preschool age children, given the fact that by periodically applying assessment tests, such as the
Peabody Developmental Motor Scales – Second Edition (PDMS-2), we can identify delays in the
psychomotor development, thus being able to intervene in order to correct them.
We started from the premise that by applying the PDMS-2 test in preschool children we
can assess the level of psychomotor development in relation to the chronological age, in years
and months, of every child. The results of the research concerning the application of the PDMS-2 scale in the little group preschool children emphasize the fact that during the process of psychomotor development, the first one to develop is the visual-motor integration, and then the object manipulation, which perfects the skills acquired previously, during the visual-motor integration.