A review of handwriting research: Progress and prospects from 1980 to 1994

S Graham, N Weintraub - Educational psychology review, 1996 - Springer
Contemporary handwriting research has focused on skilled performance, the developing
capabilities of children, atypical development, the effectiveness of various letter forms …

Product and process evaluation of handwriting difficulties

S Rosenblum, PL Weiss, S Parush - Educational psychology review, 2003 - Springer
Handwriting is a complex human activity that entails an intricate blend of cognitive,
kinesthetic, and perceptual-motor components. Children are expected to acquire a level of …

Development of handwriting speed and legibility in grades 1–9

S Graham, V Berninger, N Weintraub… - The Journal of …, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
The development of handwriting speed and legibility in 900 children in Grades 1–9 was
examined. Each student completed 3 writing tasks: copying a paragraph, writing a narrative …

Handwriting difficulties in primary school children: A search for underlying mechanisms

MJM Volman, BM van Schendel… - The American Journal …, 2006 - research.aota.org
OBJECTIVE. This study investigated the contribution of perceptual-motor dysfunction and
cognitive planning problems to the quality or speed of handwriting in children with …

Perceptual-motor function of school-age children with slow handwriting speed

MH Tseng, SMK Chow - The American Journal of Occupational …, 2000 - research.aota.org
Objectives. This study investigated differences in perceptual-motor measures and sustained
attention between children with slow and normal handwriting speed and the relationship …

Problems in developing functional handwriting

R Karlsdottir, T Stefansson - Perceptual and motor skills, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
The development of handwriting quality and speed of 407 primary school children was
followed from Grade 1 to Grade 5 in a longitudinal experiment. Performance was analyzed …

Computerized temporal handwriting characteristics of proficient and non-proficient handwriters

S Rosenblum, S Parush, PL Weiss - The American Journal of …, 2003 - research.aota.org
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to use computerized temporal measures to
examine and compare the writing process of proficient and non-proficient third-grade …

Chinese handwriting performance of primary school children with dyslexia

SST Lam, RKC Au, HWH Leung… - Research in developmental …, 2011 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to investigate the Chinese handwriting performance of typical
children and children with dyslexia, and to examine whether speed and accuracy of …

Handwriting: what do we know and what do we need to know?

J Medwell, D Wray - Literacy, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Handwriting has a low status and profile in literacy education in England and in recent years
has attracted little attention from teachers, policy‐makers or researchers into mainstream …

Sex differences in motor performance and motor learning in children and adolescents: an increasing male advantage in motor learning and consolidation phase gains

S Dorfberger, E Adi-Japha, A Karni - Behavioural brain research, 2009 - Elsevier
We investigated gender differences in motor performance in 9-, 12-, and 17-year-olds. The
tasks included simple thumb tapping (sTT), handwriting (HW) and finger-to-thumb opposition …