Jan Håkon Rudolfsen, John Vissing, Ulla Werlauff, Charlotte Olesen, Niels Illum, Jens Olsen, Peter Bo Poulsen, Mette Strand, Alfred Peter Born
Burden of Disease of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in Denmark - A National Register-Based Study of Individuals with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and their Closest Relatives
Journal of neuromuscular diseases
purpose longitudinal study examine consistency handwriting children beginning kindergarten middle firstgrade year consistency defined retaining qualitative performance relative ranking time ninetythree children tested beginning kindergarten year middle firstgrade year scale childrens readiness printing script data analyzed repeated measures analysis variance anova 3 performance groups lower middle upper x 2 grades followed tukeys hsd post hoc analysis analysis change performance individual children also conducted main effects interaction anova significant post hoc analysis grade demonstrated middle lower performing groups showed significant improvement kindergarten first grade whereas upper performing group remained unchanged post hoc analysis found significant differences among three performance groups kindergarten first grade lower performing group continued score significantly lower middle upper performing groups whereas middle upper performing groups significantly different analysis individual data revealed 60 students consistent performance kindergarten first grade correlation kindergarten script scores firstgrade script scores provides initial evidence moderately consistent pattern handwriting performance exists students low middleranked handwriting skills show relatively similar improvement time whereas change students ranked high limited