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Chanu, Hijam Laxmi
- Status of Writing Readiness of Urban School Children With Poor Handwriting
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1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (Punjab), IN
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (Punjab), IN
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Asian Journal of Home Science, Vol 13, No 2 (2018), Pagination: 615-622Abstract
The present study was designed to identify urban school children with poor handwriting in English and explore their level of writing readiness. A sample of 60 children from grade 3 in the age group of 7-9 years was drawn from two public schools of Ludhiana city with average or above average intellectual abilities. Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices (Raven, 1965) was used to identify the intellectual abilities of children. Occupational Therapy Screening Test (Lilley, 2006) Set A was used to assess the handwriting skills of the children. Writing Readiness Assessment Tool was used to assess different pre-writing skills. Finding of the study revealed that more than half of the children with poor handwriting skills were found to have poor writing readiness skills followed by average and good level. It was further found that in all the dimensions of writing readiness, major proportion of children had poor level of performance. Out of all the dimensions of writing readiness, ‘Moving from freedom to confinement’ was found to be poorest skill in children with poor handwriting.Keywords
Poor Handwriting, Writing Readiness, Moving From Freedom to Confinement.References
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- Impact of Intervention in Remediating Visual Perception Skills of Urban School Children with Poor Handwriting
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1 Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN
1 Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN
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Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 9, No 7 (2018), Pagination: 953-959Abstract
The present study is an attempt to evaluate the impact of intervention programme in remediating visual perception skills of urban school children with poor handwriting. The total sample consisted of 60 children of grade 3 from the public schools of Ludhiana city with average or above average intellectual abilities. Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (Raven, 1965) was used to assess the intellectual abilities of the children. Occupational Therapy Screening Test (Lilley, 2006) Set A and Set B were used to assess handwriting and different sub-skills of visual perception respectively. An individualized need-based remedial intervention programme based on multisensory, visuo-motor integration and cognitive approaches was developed to improve handwriting legibility of children. Efficacy of the developed programme was assessed by comparing pre and post-intervention scores of the children. Pre-intervention scores revealed that more than half of the children with poor handwriting skills were found to have poor visual perception followed by average and good level. However, after intervention, significant improvement was found in this skill. The results also revealed that before intervention, out of all the sub-skills of visual perception 'Visual Motor Integration' followed by 'Visual Discrimination' were found to be the poorest among such children. However, after receiving intervention, these sub-skills became the strongest skills of such children. It was further found that significant improvement in the mean scores of children was observed during post-intervention assessment across all the levels and sub-skills of visual perception.Keywords
Visual Perception, Visual Discrimination, Visual Motor Integration, Intervention.References
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