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Written Language: A Missing Foundationa Study By Speech-language Pathologist And Teachers

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Handwriting is a very essential functional task for school going children. They expresses their thoughts and knowledge through grapheme, a complex skill that encompasses visuomotor coordination, higher level cognitive processes, perceptual abilities, tactile and kinesthetic sensitivity, motor planning, spatial organization, temporal control and the integration of the written language. Graphemes include alphabetic letters, numerical digits, punctuation marks, and the individual symbols. Most of the school going children has many problems in the school performance and their writing is a main concern. Handwriting problems may stem from a variety of causes, most commonly language, visuo-spatial or motor difficulties and problem in number of components, which includes the childs workstation, posture, writing tool, behavior, writing speed, legibility and content. Factors that contribute to illegible writing are incorrect letter formations or reversals, inconsistent size and heights of letters, variable slant and poor alignment and irregular spacing between words and letters. External factors are instructional procedures and materials used during writing and internal factors are visuomotor skills, visual perception, motor planning in-hand manipulation, and kinesthetic awareness. Many authors have discussed the link between various aspects of cognitionparticularly attention, memory, language and handwriting skill. It is suggested that success in handwriting can be optimized when the internal factors are age appropriate.

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