EFFECT OF SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS IN CURSIVE WRITING OF FIRST GRADE LEFTHANDED CHILDREN: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
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https://doi.org/10.25746/ruiips.v7.i2.19285Keywords:
children, cursive writing, left-handedness, paper rotationAbstract
In cursive writing the child has to produce small and continuous distal movements (Thomassen & Teulings 1983), through an instrument, the pen, requiring visual monitoring and ballistic control (Wann 1986). Young children tend to realize different writing sizes (Meulenbroek et al. 1985), while they explore postural positions in frequent discontinuous movements (Wann & Jones 1986); and, in complex graphemic tasks children require significantly longer writing times (e.g., Meulenbrock et al. 1985).
Righthanders do not write more rapidly or legibly than lefthanders, however, lefthanders reveal techniques of adjusting positions for handwriting, with left-handed children that use the non-inverted position (the writing hand below the line of writing) scoring best than inverted hand positions (the writing hand above the line of writing); which gain with a counter clockwise rotation of the paper (Enström, 1962; Teasdale & Owen, 2001).
Based on the need of left-hand writers to adjust their posture (Enström, 1962, 1966; Wahl, 1955; Herrón, 1980), and the effect of paper rotation (Szeligo, Brazier, & Houston; 2003; Enström, 1962; Teasdale & Owen, 2001), the purpose of this study was to analyse the effect of paper relative position on cursive writing on left-hand children.
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