The study involving 108 kindergartners revealed that while children at extreme opposite ends of a school readiness continuum differed reliably in the percentage of normative stroke directions used to construct horizontal, vertical, and circular lines, the overall correlation was sufficiently low to suggest caution in using this data in screening.…

The handwriting achievement of children who use transparent overlays for self-assessment and children who did not use the overlays was compared. There were no significant differences between the groups. Girls' achievement was higher when legibility, letter formation, and spacing were considered. (Author/BW)

Teachers in the school setting need to emphasize quality handwriting across the curriculum. Quality handwriting means that the written content is easy to read in either manuscript or cursive form. Handwriting achievement can be assessed, but not compared to the precision of assessing basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.…

This textbook is a first-year reader. Lessons in this book relate to objects which are familiar to every child and which may be brought into every schoolroom. In accordance with the method pursued in the majority of the best schools, script is introduced at the same time with the Roman characters. This, besides other advantages, enables the…

Describes a research program concerned with systematic printing instruction for kindergarten children. The program was field tested in low-income and middle class area schools. (DP)

Investigates the effects of four typewriter faces and handwriting on the level and reliability of grades awarded to English themes. (DG)

A reversal design with multiple baseline features was used to assess the efficacy of self-instructions, self-correction, and a combination of the two on a nine-year-old learning disabled boy's handwriting performance. (Author)

The article discusses ways to help learning disabled and other young children learn to write numerals through the use of fading, development of prewriting skills, analysis of numeral form, and avoidance of reversals. The issue of dominance is briefly discussed. Sixteen learning activities prior to using worksheets are listed. (DB)

Considers systems for the classification of handwriting features, discusses computer storage of information about handwriting features, and summarizes recent studies that give an idea of the range of forensic handwriting research. (GT)

The article focuses on a program for remedial handwriting instruction in which the student diagnoses which letters on his/her worksheet are incorrectly formed, relieving the teacher of the need for constant attention and helping to avoid repetitive mispractice.

All available suicide notes (N=27) from 267 consecutive adolescent suicides were analyzed for spelling and handwriting errors and then dictated to adolescents with and without LD. Results indicated that 89% of the 27 adolescents who had committed suicide had significant deficits in spelling and handwriting similar to those of other adolescents…

A study of the use of Pitman's shorthand as a means of handwritten data entry into computers concludes that it exhibits many features of a machinography or machine compatible script, and can compete with the QWERTY keyboard for speed in text entry. (EA)