The contribution of gender, orthographic, finger function, and visual- motor processes to the prediction of handwriting status

Occupational Therapy Journal of Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 121-140

  Weintraub, Naomi ^a   Graham, Steve ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Finger functioning; Handwriting; Orthography; Visual motor integration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINGER; GENDER; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PREDICTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SKILL; STUDENT; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0034013940     PISSN: 02761599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153944920002000203     Document Type: Article

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