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The Influence of Sensory-Motor Components of Handwriting on Chinese Character Learning in Second- and Fourth-Grade Chinese Children
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Xu, Zhengye; Liu, Duo; Joshi, R. Malatesha – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
In the present study, 144 second- and 150 fourth-grade Chinese students were recruited to complete a Chinese character learning task to explore the specific contributions of sensory-motor components (i.e., visual, motor, and haptic systems) of handwriting to Chinese character learning. After matching for age, nonverbal IQ, and a series of…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Handwriting, Orthographic Symbols, Written Language
Visual-Motor Integration and Reading Chinese in Children with/without Dyslexia
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Meng, Ze-Long; Wydell, Taeko N.; Bi, Hong-Yan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Visual-motor integration is an ability to coordinate the visual information and limb movement, which has direct relevance to Chinese handwriting ability. Interestingly handwriting practice can also improve Chinese reading. However, the relationship between visual-motor integration and reading ability in Chinese is unclear. The present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Sensory Integration, Visual Perception
Restoration and Habilitation of Handwriting Skills to Adults in a Rehabilitation Center Setting
Stark, Mary Lou – New Outlook for the Blind, 1970
Descriptors: Handwriting, Instructional Materials, Kinesthetic Perception, Tactile Adaptation
Special Education: Children with Learning Problems.
Reger, Roger; And Others – 1968
Designed for administrators and special education teachers, the text describes how and why to establish a special education program. Areas reviewed are the educational program, responsibility of the schools for problem children, nature of special education and handicap, decision making, problems in special education, teacher preparation and…
Descriptors: Administration, Association (Psychology), Auditory Perception, Classroom Design
Remediating Handwriting Skills for Learning Disabled Students.
Highsmith, Victoria – 1988
The paper describes strategies for teaching six different handwriting skills to learning disabled (LD) elementary students. A rationale for each strategy precedes step-by-step procedural descriptions. Strategies in the following areas are described: (1) introducing LD children with motor coordination deficits to alphabetic symbols using sandpaper…
Descriptors: Cursive Writing, Elementary Education, Eye Hand Coordination, Handwriting
The Development of a Program o f Instruction for Beginning Handwriting Emphasizing Verbalization of Procedures to Increase Perception and an Analysis of the Effectiveness of this Program through Comparison with a Commercial Method. (Volumes I and II).
Furner, Beatrice Ann – 1967
In this study, a teaching method stressing the learner's perceptual development was prepared for the purpose of teaching beginning handwriting to children. During a school year, 324 first-graders were guided to examine the formational processes of handwriting, to describe the correct procedures orally, to check their own procedures against the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Grade 1
A Clinical Approach to Training the Educable Mentally Retarded: A Handbook.
Jolles, Isaac; Southwick, Selma I. – 1969
The use of methods found effective with the brain injured with educable mentally handicapped children is discussed; the clinical approach to teaching and the psychology of the educable are explained; and educational implications are outlined. The following are then considered: sensory deficiencies and intensified stimulation; training perception;…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Attention, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching