The relationship of motor and reading proficiency was studied in a group of 100 junior high school males. Two reading conditions, adequate and inadequate, and two racial samples, Negro and Caucasian, were employed. Motor performance was significantly different for the two reading groups but was not for the two racial ones. The findings were discussed in light of current explanations of learning disorders.
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