Coordination, Visual Spatial Skills and Handwriting
Frontiers in Psychology published research examining the relationship between motor coordination and handwriting skills, and to identify differences in handwriting between children without and with coordination difficulties with a focus on visual–spatial skills. Motor coordination, graphic abilities, visual–motor integration, visual–spatial skills, and other cognitive abilities (memory and planning) were assessed in 83 children aged 7–10 years. The results indicated the following:
- no relation between motor coordination and handwriting skills
- visual–spatial skills (measured by a visual-constructive task) were related with both.
The researchers concluded that general motor coordination does not have a direct link with the execution of graphic gesture patterns. Children with mild motor dysfunction were lower in visual reasoning abilities with respect to those with normal and good motor function.
Reference: Scordella, A et al. The role of general dynamic coordination in the handwriting skills of children. Front Psychol. 2015; 6: 580. Published online 2015 May 7. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00580
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