The Effects of Junior Florist Training Course on the Spatial Perception Ability and Hand Dexterity of Low-Income Children of Local Child Center

The purpose of this study was to look into the influence of the junior florist training course on spatial perception ability and hand dexterity of low-income children at a community child center. For this purpose, 46 elementary school children who were divided into two groups attended total 13 sessions of program from June 2 to August 30 in 2017. In case of spatial perception ability, the control group did show any change (p=.251), whereas the experimental group showed a significant progress (p=.001). In case of hand dexterity, the control group showed a significant change at a major hand (p=.018), whereas the experimental group showed a significant change at both a major hand (p=.009) and a non-major hand (p=.001). Looking into the differences on gender, both male participants (p=.008) and female participants (p=.040) showed a significant change in spatial perception ability, and in case of promptness, there was a significant change in male participants’ major hand (p=.017), and female participants’ major hand (p=.044) and non-major hand (p=.037). In the comparison between low grade children and high grade children, the lower graders showed significant changes in their spatial perception ability (p=.001) and hand dexterity in a non-major hand (p=.012), whereas high graders showed a significant change in hand dexterity in a non-major hand (p=.042). In spatial perception ability, there was a more significant change in low graders than high graders, and in male children than female children.