Importance Of Handwriting

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Handwriting is defined as a visible form of spoken language (1). According to the child and youth edition of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) handwriting is an essential occupation for learning and application of knowledge (2). Handwriting is a complex perceptual motor skill that is consisting a blend of visual motor coordination abilities, motor planning, perceptual and cognitive skills as well as tactile and kinesthetic sensitivities(3, 4). Despite recent innovations in information technology such as computer based typing devices to transmit data, handwriting is still a necessary skill for education and social communication(5). Elementary school students spend approximately half time of school day …show more content…

Various factors affecting legibility and speed of handwriting such as visual perception, cognition, visual motor coordination, and fine motor control (3, 9-11). Relationship between motor function of the hand and hand sensation in normal population is evident(12). Dexterity as a complex fine motor skill of the hand is an outcome of sensory information processing in multiple layers of nervous system provided by various sensory subsystems such as kinesthesia and proprioception (13). There is controversy about the role of kinesthesia and proprioception in handwriting proficiency because of difficulty in measuring the pure sense (3, 14, 15). To our knowledge there is no published evidence about the role of discriminative touch on the handwriting performance and relationship of fine motor control and discriminative touch in learning disabled children with dysgraphia. The first aim of this study was to comparison of sensory motor function of the hand between school aged children with developmental dysgraphia and normal …show more content…

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Two-Point Discrimination Test
For assessing static and moving two point discrimination we used Touch-Test Two Point Discriminator (Patterson Medical). Rounded tips are spaced at standard testing intervals from 1-15 mm apart. One disk setting tests from 1 to 8 mm and the other from 9 to 15 mm. Change in settings is possible just by rotating the top disk until it clicks into place(19,

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