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Visual motor integration is conceptualized as the ability to integrate the visual image of letters or shapes with the appropriate motor response. Visual motor integration is often defined operationally as the ability to copy geometric shapes. The visual motor integration test is consisting of a series of shapes which progress from simple figures to more complex ones. The objectives of this study are to develop normative data for Indian population, to assess visual motor integration skills in school going children, to know the relationship between visual motor integration & handwriting skills. The methodology for the study is simple regression model and descriptive statistics has been used for finding the best results. this study may help school going children to improve their visual ability and handwriting skills. The results are: if visual-motor skills are a product of the interaction of multiple factors, then it would be reasonable to assume that only multifaceted intervention would produce results with positive outcomes in visual-motor skills, the importance of visual perception and visual-motor coordination in hand as a foundation of development of academic skills, etc. VMI, VMI and handwriting skills are not interrelated. Their contribution towards academic performance over the three years was found to be divergent in nature.