Higher risk for poor handwriting in Taiwanese children born late preterm
Pediatrics and Neonatology, 2023 Background: Late-preterm and early-term births constitute a significant proportion of live births. However, handwriting skills of these two populations remain unclear. We aimed to investigate their risk for poor Chinese handwriting in grade two. Methods:
Yea-Shwu Hwang +3 more
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Calligraphic Education during childhood and its long-term effect on the adult handwriting
Revista Chilena de Terapia Ocupacional, 2018 Background: Handwriting is an essential part of human communication. Its successful development is decisive for its personal and academic future. One of its most important components is the grip of the pen, of which there are 5 standard variants.
Dan Morgenstern-Kaplan +6 more
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How to use pen and paper tasks to aid tremor diagnosis in the clinic [PDF]
, 2017 When a patient presents with tremor, it can be useful to perform a few simple pen and paper tests. In this article, we explain how to maximise the value of handwriting and of drawing Archimedes spirals and straight lines as clinical assessments.
Deborah Thorpe +3 more
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A Comparison of Print and Cursive Handwriting in Fifth and Sixth Grade Students: A Pilot Study
Open Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2016 Background: Handwriting is an important skill to master because handwriting demands take up a significant portion of the school day. Pediatric occupational therapists evaluate and treat children who are experiencing challenges with handwriting; therefore,
Anne H. Zachry +5 more
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Chinese handwriting performance in preterm children in grade 2.
PLoS ONE, 2018 BackgroundFirst graders born prematurely perform poorly on handwriting speed and legibility. However, whether there are specific legibility factors in which preterm children demonstrate difficulty remains unknown.
Hui-Ning Shih +5 more
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Beyond writing: The development of literacy in the Ancient Near East [PDF]
, 2016 Previous discussions of the origins of writing in the Ancient Near East have not incorporated the neuroscience of literacy, which suggests that when southern Mesopotamians wrote marks on clay in the late-fourth millennium, they inadvertently reorganized ...
Overmann, Karenleigh
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Understanding Interest And Self-Efficacy In The Reading And Writing Of Students With Persisting Specific Learning Disabilities During Middle Childhood And Early Adolescence [PDF]
, 2017 Three methodological approaches were applied to understand the role of interest and self-efficacy in reading and/or writing in students without and with persisting specific learning disabilities (SLDs) in literacy.
Abbott, R. +6 more
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IEEE Access, 2022 According to the oscillation theory of handwriting, letters are formed by the coupled modulation of horizontal and vertical oscillations of the hands. This modulation-oscillation scheme requires human motor control.
Smitha John, V. G. Renumol
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Using a handwriting app leads to improvement in manual dexterity in kindergarten children
Research in Learning Technology, 2019 This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of using electronic handwriting applications (apps) in addition to a traditional method of teaching handwriting on kindergarten children’s manual dexterity (MD) and handwriting skills. Testing was done with
Christi Butler +4 more
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"Let Me Hear Your Handwriting!" Evaluating the Movement Fluency from Its Sonification. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The quality of handwriting is evaluated from the visual inspection of its legibility and not from the movement that generates the trace. Although handwriting is achieved in silence, adding sounds to handwriting movement might help towards its perception,
Jérémy Danna +6 more
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