A Comparison of the handwriting speed among 3rd grade primary school students (Female and Male) in Tehran in 1386-1387

Document Type : Original article

Authors

1 Lecturer of Occupation Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2 MSc in Occupational therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding author) javantash@yahoo.com

3 MSc in Occupational therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding author)

Abstract

Background and Aim: Handwriting is an important functional task  frequently used in all grades beginning in kindergarten .Children are expected to acquire a level of handwriting proficiency that enables them to make skillful use of handwriting as a tool to carry out their work at school. So handwriting fluency in a written examination requires the writer to maintain sufficient speed. The aim of the study was to examine and compare the speed of hand writing skills between girls and boys students.
 
Material and Method: This Discriptive analytic survey with the technique of cluster sampling was carried out on the 2 sample schools on the areas of two & sixth in great Tehran in 1386-7(s.y).The outcome of measurement were the “speed of copying’’ and “writing of memorized poem”. The subjects included 315 students (193 female, 122 male) of which were 18 left handed girls and 12 left handed boys.
 
Result : The  results  of this study  revealed that the speed of  writing of copying  was 37/05 words/min ,while  the speed of writing  a memorized poem  was 31/1 words/min in the girls and boys students.
 
Conclusion: There were no significant differences between the speed of hand writing among boys and girls and also between Right & Left handed students. However being left or right handed is an important factor in poem memorizing and right handed were faster than left handed.  
 

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The Scientific Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
Volume 1, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
January and February 2013
Pages 14-19

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History

  • Receive Date: 11 December 2011
  • Revise Date: 27 February 2012
  • Accept Date: 05 June 2012
  • First Publish Date: 21 December 2012

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