- Small muscle development.
- Eye-hand coordination.
- The ability to hold utensils or writing tools.
- The capacity to smoothly form basic strokes such as circles and lines.
- Letter perception including ability to recognize forms, notice likeness and differences, infer the movements necessary for the production of form, and give accurate verbal descriptions of what was seen.
- Orientation to printed language which involves the visual analysis of letters and words and right-left discrimination.
Handwriting can be deficient either in legibility or in terms of speed. The factors that determine legibility are letter formation, spacing, size, slant, horizontal alignment and general appearance.Our pediatric Occupational therapist identifies clinical reasoning for your child handwriting difficulties in terms of legibility and speed by using standardised & non-standardised assessment procedures. Clinical reasoning for illegibility and slowness in Handwriting are (1) problem in motor system (2) poor cognitive-perceptual skills.
