A recent study in the Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, & Early Intervention assessed two groups of first grade students with the Minnesota Handwriting Assessment. The first group printed on a four-lined writing grid that included top, middle, base, and descender guidelines. The second group printed on double lined paper that provided middle and base […]
The Edie Neurolearning Blog posted information on some research on the brain basis of dysgraphia. It appears to be very interesting although there is not a reference. It confirms what many pediatric therapists observe – many children require extensive visual monitoring of letter formation. Functional MRI’s compared “good writers” with “bad writers”. The testing revealed that […]
Here are several suggestions for making visual motor activities reusable with wipe off markers. You can watch the YouTube video or go to YourTherapySource.com for pictures of more ideas and tips on what worked best when we tried them all out.
The Australian Occupational Therapy Journal published research on the effect of pencil grasp on handwriting speed and legibility in 120 fourth grade students after a 10 minute copy task. A standardized handwriting assessment was completed before and after a 10 minute copy task by typically developing students and students with handwriting issues. The results indicated […]
The Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools and Early Intervention published research on haptic and kinesthetic perceptions relationships to handwriting legibility and speed in 177 first and second grade children in Taiwan. Haptic perception is the ability to recognize objects through touch. Kinesthetic perception is the ability to recognize how the body moves in space. The […]
I found a website where you can create your own font for free and then install it on your computer to use in a Word document or any publishing software. It is very simple. Print out the template that the website provides. Write letters and numbers in the boxes on the templates. Scan the template […]
A student recently did a research review on the influence of fine motor skills on handwriting. Of the nine articles that could be included, 7 researched the relationship between fine motor skills and handwriting legibility and 4 studies investigated fine motor skills and handwriting speed. The results indicated that children with poor handwriting received significantly […]
Zaner-Bloser has proposed Written Language Production Standards for Handwriting and Keyboarding. These standards offer developmentally appropriate, research–based indicators to integrate handwriting and keyboarding into the curriculum. From the Zaner-Bloser website it states that the standards are: “research-based and includes basic letter formation and keyboarding indicators included in the Common Core State Standards for English […]
After seeing this on Pinterest, I thought this would be a great idea for children to practice handwriting or add in some physical activity (a silent game). You can download the free speech bubbles to use and some ideas to go along with them over at YourTherapySource.com
I came across this jackpot for handwriting research and information today. There was a handwriting summit a few weeks ago in Washington DC sponsored by Zaner Bloser. Now they have put up all the research presentations which you can view in full online for free. You can watch the videos and even get the slides […]