The development of the tool for optimizing written productivity (TOW-P)

Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 5-22

  Schwellnus, Heidi ^a   Lockhart, Julia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical guidelines; Handwriting; Intervention; School age children; Written productivity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRODUCTIVITY; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; WRITING;

CHILD; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; MOTOR SKILLS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY;

EID: 0036458410     PISSN: 01942638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J006v22n03_02     Document Type: Article

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