Recruiting

QAPS

Sponsor:

Virginia Commonwealth University

Code:

NCT05905523

Conditions

Child Development

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 3 - 7

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Assessing prewriting skills in children

Study Details

Brief summary:

Early evaluation of prewriting skills is important, as prewriting skills set the stage for later learning of the fine motor and visual motor skills needed for writing. Evaluation of prewriting skills allows for the identification of those children who struggle with these tasks so that early intervention might address these foundational skills before academic demands become more challenging. However, current prewriting skill assessments are limited to pencil-and-paper assessments that require an evaluator to score the drawn shapes. Manual scoring is time consuming, can be subjective, and limit the ability to capture subtle changes in performance.

We have developed an assessment on a tablet to assess prewriting skills in children. The preliminary testing of the assessment is published in a paper (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35417278/). We are now working on developing an online version of the assessment that will allow offsite data collection and will automate the analysis on the website so that the results can be automatically generated for the clinician or educator who wants to use this with the children they work with.

Conditions

Child Development

Study ID

NCT05905523

Start date

Oct 3, 2023

Status verified date

Jun, 2026

Completion date

Dec 1, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec 1, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 3 - 7

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Children between 3 to 7 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Children unable to follow directions to attempt copying shapes.

Study Design

Enrollment

1000 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

3 year old participants

In this study, your child will be asked to do the following things:

1. Play a drawing game on a tablet
2. Copy shapes using a pencil in a paper booklet
3. Write some letters and cut paper with scissors You will complete surveys and answer questions about your child's development

4 year old participants

In this study, your child will be asked to do the following things:

1. Play a drawing game on a tablet
2. Copy shapes using a pencil in a paper booklet
3. Write some letters and cut paper with scissors You will complete surveys and answer questions about your child's development

5 year old participants

In this study, your child will be asked to do the following things:

1. Play a drawing game on a tablet
2. Copy shapes using a pencil in a paper booklet
3. Write some letters and cut paper with scissors You will complete surveys and answer questions about your child's development

6 year old participants

In this study, your child will be asked to do the following things:

1. Play a drawing game on a tablet
2. Copy shapes using a pencil in a paper booklet
3. Write some letters and cut paper with scissors You will complete surveys and answer questions about your child's development

7 year old participants

In this study, your child will be asked to do the following things:

1. Play a drawing game on a tablet
2. Copy shapes using a pencil in a paper booklet
3. Write some letters and cut paper with scissors You will complete surveys and answer questions about your child's development

Interventions

Assessing prewriting skills in children

In this study, your child will be asked to do the following things:

1. Play a drawing game on a tablet
2. Copy shapes using a pencil in a paper booklet
3. Write some letters and cut paper with scissors You will complete surveys and answer questions about your child's development

Primary outcome measure

  • Online QAPS [ Time Frame: 5-10 minutes ]
  • Beery VMI [ Time Frame: 5-10 minutes ]
  • Functional hand tasks [ Time Frame: 5-10 minutes ]
  • Demographics survey [ Time Frame: 5 minutes ]
  • Emotionality Assessment [ Time Frame: 5 minutes ]
  • Strengths & difficulties Questionnaire Inattention/Hyperactivity subscale [ Time Frame: 5 minutes ]
  • Ego Resiliency Scale [ Time Frame: 5 minutes ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Virginia Chu, PhD, OTR/L

804-828-1564vchu@vcu.edu

Locations

Virginia Commonweath University

Recruiting

Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23298

Contacts

Virginia Chu

804-828-1564vchu@vcu.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Virginia Commonwealth University

Last update posted

Jun 3, 2026

Last verified

Jun, 2026

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Virginia Commonwealth University on 2026-06-03.