Relationships between handwriting components and underlying perceptual-motor functions among students during copying and dictation tasks

OTJR Occupation, Participation and Health

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-48

  Parush, Shula ^a   Lifshitz, Nirit ^b   Yochman, Aviva ^a   Weintraub, Naomi ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b ONO ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dictation; Legibility; Speed

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECORDING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY;

EID: 77149149672     PISSN: 15394492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15394492-20091214-06     Document Type: Article

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