Handwriting Evaluation in School-Aged Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Literature Review

• Published in: Curēus (Palo Alto, CA) CA), 2023-03, Vol.15 (3), p.e35817
• Main Authors: Koul, Prishita, Qureshi, Moh'd Irshad, Kovela, Rakesh K
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Brain research; Children & youth; Cognition & reasoning; Handwriting; Intellectual disabilities; Literature reviews; Motor ability; Neurology; Pediatrics; Physical fitness; Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; Skills; System theory
• ISSN: 2168-8184; 2168-8184
• DOI: 10.7759/cureus.35817

Despite widespread computer use, legible handwriting remains an important common life skill that requires more attention from schools and health professionals. Importantly, instructors and parents typically attribute the difficulties to laziness or a lack of effort, causing the youngster anger and disappointment. Handwriting issues are a public health concern in terms of both prevalence and consequences. Writing is a tough and diverse activity that requires cognitive, perceptual-motor, mental, and emotional talents. It is largely a motor process involving an effective level of motor organization that results in exact movement synchronization. Handwriting problems have been connected to developmental disorders such as developmental coordination disorder. For the affected youngsters, forming letters takes more work, and the kid may forget what he or she planned to write. School children's primary handwriting issues include illegible writing, slow handwriting, and strained writing. Handwriting problems may lead to scholastic underachievement and low self-esteem. Because of this complication, some school-aged children develop handwriting difficulties, which cause psychological distress and learning impairments. In the treatment of children with bad handwriting, the therapeutic intervention has been demonstrated to be successful. We aimed to determine how efficient tools and scales are which assess handwriting in school-aged children having developmental coordination disorder. Keyword searches were conducted on Google Scholar and PubMed, yielding 45 results, eight of which met the inclusion requirements. We concluded that there are a lot of scales and tools to date but no scale focuses on the temporal and spatial parameters for handwriting evaluation.