The Children's Handwriting Scale: A New Diagnostic Tool

Phelps, Joanne; Stempel, Lynn; Speck, Gail

doi:10.1080/00220671.1985.10885646

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“…In the American study, right-handed writers wrote faster than lefthanded writers (M = 73 vs 65 letters per minute, respectively) (Graham, et al, 1998). Another study reported that right-handers (RH) wrote faster than left-handers (LH), although data were not presented (Phelps, 1985). In contrast, no differences were found in handwriting speed between LH and RH in an Australian study involving a sample of 212 children from Grades 3 to 6, with 14% of left-handed writers (RH = 69.8 letters/min, LH = 67.1 letters/min; p = .61) (Wallen & Mackay, 1999).…”

Section: Modes Of Handwritingmentioning

confidence: 94%

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Handwriting in healthy people aged 65 years and over

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McCluskey

Lannin

2011

Australian Occupational Therapy Journal

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Background: Handwriting is an important activity that is commonly affected by neurological and orthopaedic conditions. Handwriting research has predominantly involved children. Little is known about handwriting behaviour in healthy older adults. Aim: This study aims to describe the handwriting practices of 30 unimpaired adults aged 65 years and over. Methods: In this cross‐sectional observational study, data were collected from 30 older adults using a self‐report questionnaire, digital pen recordings over three days and a handwriting log. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics. Results: The mean age of participants was 75.1 years (standard deviation = 6.9). Variations in handwriting were evident in letter size, slant and spacing. Participants wrote very little – a median of 18 words per occasion (interquartile range = 10.5–26.9 words). Most handwriting involved self‐generated text (85%), not copied or transcribed text. Participants stood while writing for 17% of handwriting occasions. The most common reasons for handwriting were note taking (23%) and puzzles (22%). Conclusions: Legibility may not depend exclusively on the handwriting script that a beginning writer is taught, but may be a result of other factors as the person ages. A comprehensive adult handwriting assessment and retraining programme should be relevant to older adults, including common handwriting activities, involving self‐generated text and few words.

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Section: Modes Of Handwritingmentioning

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“…Although many studies used large samples, a variety of writing activities, instructions, test duration and outcome measures were used. For example, one study required 1365 children in the USA to copy text for 2 minutes at their usual pace, and included children from resource (education support) classes (Phelps, 1985).…”

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Handwriting in healthy people aged 65 years and over

Drempt

McCluskey

Lannin

2011

Australian Occupational Therapy Journal

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“…In general, the scales adopt the characteristics of legibility as evaluation criteria and employ analytical rating systems which require the examiner to score the handwriting sample on these different dimensions (e.g. letter size and formation, alignment, spacing) (Herrick & Erlebacher, 1963;Rubin & Henderson, 1982; Alston, 1983;Ziviani & Elkins, 1984;Phelps et al, 1985;Stott, Moyes & Henderson, 1985). These characteristics are summarised in Table 1 and a close look reveals that letter formation, spacing, size, alignment and slant are the aspects most frequently adopted as criteria for evaluating legibility of handwriting.…”

Section: Review Of the Literature Handwriting Evaluation In The Englimentioning

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“…These characteristics are summarised in Table 1 and a close look reveals that letter formation, spacing, size, alignment and slant are the aspects most frequently adopted as criteria for evaluating legibility of handwriting. Although their measurement method was objective Alston (1983) x x x X X X Herrick &a Erlbacker (1963) X x x Phelps et al (1985) X et al (1985) x x x The spatial architecture of the Chinese character…”

Section: Review Of the Literature Handwriting Evaluation In The Englimentioning

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Construct validity of the tseng teacher handwriting checklist

Tseng

1994

Occupation Therapy Intl

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Handwriting problems in Chinese elementary school students have rarely been researched. Efforts to examine handwriting difficulties in school-aged children have been hampered by the lack of a reliable and vahd instrument. The present study was designed to examine the construct validity of the Tseng Teacher Handwriting Checklist (TTHC), which consists of 24 items that assess handwriting problems in Chinese elementary school students. Factor analysis was performed on the items of the TTHC with a sample of 2 14 school-aged children from grades 3 to 5 who had handwriting problems. Results replicated a previous study. Factor loadings were all sufficiently strong to regard the six factors as distinct, well-defined constructs. These factors were construction, sequencing, behawiour, accuracy, motor and directionality.

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Handwriting Development and Comparison

Allen¹

2015

Foundations of Forensic Document Analysis

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The Children's Handwriting Scale: A New Diagnostic Tool

Cited by 83 publications

References 2 publications

Handwriting in healthy people aged 65 years and over

Handwriting in healthy people aged 65 years and over

Construct validity of the tseng teacher handwriting checklist

Handwriting Development and Comparison

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