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Signs of a Student Struggling with HandwritingStudents who have difficulty with many aspects of schoolwork often struggle with a mechanical writing problem that contributes to their predicament. When children have to focus a lot on the process of writing, they miss much of the content being taught, and may not accurately convey what they do understand. Occupational Therapy attempts to improve a child’s handwriting by addressing not only the learning process of letter formation, but also fine-motor coordination, attention, and visual-perceptual components related to it.
Signs of a Student Struggling with Handwriting:
- Difficulty with letter formation or general illegibility
- Significant variations in size of letters
- Problems with keeping letters/words on line
- Inconsistent spacing between letters and words
- Continual crowding of words at the end of a line
- Reversals of letters and numbers
- Extreme slowness of writing speed or writing much too quickly
- Complaints of hand pain/cramping
- Use of an awkward or strange-looking pencil grasp
- Not holding paper in a stable position while writing
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Unusual/awkward body postures when trying to write
