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Handwriting versus Typing and Writing Skills

Recent research in Reading and Writing answered the question of handwriting versus typing and writing performance.  To begin with, they examined the contribution of handwriting fluency to writing performance. The second part of the research explored the relationship between handwriting and keyboarding and compared their contributions to writing.

Results of the Study on Handwriting Versus Typing and Writing Quality

The researchers determined the following:
  • handwriting fluency contributes to writing significantly and consistently.
  • handwriting fluency also significantly contributes to specific writing measures (e.g., writing quality, writing fluency, substantive quality).
  • fluency of handwriting and keyboarding were significantly related, particularly on speed.
  • the writing quality whether handwritten or use of a keyboard were relatively competitive.
  • keyboarding did allow for faster writing.

Conclusion About Handwriting Versus Typing

The researchers concluded that handwriting is important for writing development even though keyboarding is accessible.

Resources to Improve Handwriting

Handwriting Interventions - Occupational Therapy tool for blocked handwriting practice helps you to find the missing link when learning letter forms is not enough.

Handwriting Interventions – Occupational Therapy tool for blocked handwriting practice helps you to utilize Motor Learning stages and principles to make substantial changes in handwriting habits with students up to the 10th grade.  Created by school-based Occupational Therapist, Thia Triggs, this “blocked” practice at the word level is immensely helpful as a method to bridge the gap between a student’s learning how to form letters and starting to develop new handwriting habits. FIND OUT MORE.

Handwriting Station Bundle

Do you receive referral after referral for students with handwriting concerns?  Are the teachers you work with feeling frustrated and overwhelmed with so little time to offer handwriting practice?

This Handwriting Station Bundle Deal will save you TONS of time with these NO-PREP activities that encourage handwriting practice for your students.  Set up a handwriting station in the classroom or at home so students can practice handwriting throughout the day in the classroom.  Great for early finishers!

Resource Guides for Students with WRitten Output Disorders

This bundle includes both Handwriting Problem Solutions Resource Guides.  Click on each title below for more details:

Assistive Technology, Implementation Methods & Educational Resource Recommendations for Kids with Written Output Disorders – This digital download is a resource guide for parents and professionals working with students with educationally significant handwriting challenges that make it difficult/impossible for them to complete written schoolwork with paper and pencil.

Special Edition for Kids with ASD – This digital download is an assistive technology resource guide for parents and professionals working with students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, over 50% of whom have educationally significant handwriting challenges that make it difficult/impossible for them to complete written schoolwork with paper and pencil.

Read more about handwriting and keyboarding

Keyboarding Versus Handwriting Speed and Learning Disabilities

Read 5 Evidence-Based Factors that Effect Handwriting Speed.

Read results from the handwriting versus keyboarding survey.

Download FREE Keyboarding Words Per Minute Goal Tracker.

Read more on workstation positioning.

Read research on Manuscript, Cursive or Keyboarding.

Reference:

Feng, L., Lindner, A., Ji, X. R., & Joshi, R. M. (2019). The roles of handwriting and keyboarding in writing: a meta-analytic review. Reading and Writing, 32(1), 33-63.
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