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time and have not assessed the relationship between increased
physical proficiency and achievement.
Rosborough (63) outlined a diagnostic and training
program for twenty children of average or above-average in-
telligence, ranging in age from five to seventeen—fourteen
boys and six girls who were experiencing extreme reading
problems. Diagnostic procedures revealed that the children
exhibited one or more of the following symptoms:
Immaturity
Poor posture
Accident proneness
Necessity for orthopedic shoes
Articulation problem with r
Cognate sound confusion auditorially
Dropping to voiceless consonants
Immature eye functioning
Limited eye span
No eidetic memory
Reversals
Poor handwriting
Fist, rather than pincer grasp
Mixed dominance (63, p. 9) .
She pointed out that musculo-skeletal performance is in-
volved in each of these characteristics, and that this might
be one of the aspects of the reading problems. Clinical
tests of physical fitness revealed from the Kraus-Weber
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Williams, Sebron Belton, 1925-. The Effects of Individualized Programs of Physical Education on Normal Children Who Have Reading Difficulties, dissertation, May 1968; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc164284/m1/64/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .