Rachel C Colley, Michelle Guerrero, Tracey Bushnik
Intersecting risk factors for physical inactivity among Canadian adults
Health reports
acquiring writing skills long developmental process conditioned mastery gesture spatiotemporal arrangement characters across page researches literature mainly focused spatiotemporal kinematics parameters tracing letters words using digitizing tablets recent research previously studied developmental prerequisites organization handwriting useful clinical assessment remediation aims present study investigate validate phenotyping developmental genesis prescriptural graphomotor gestures among schoolaged children achieving correct handwriting subject examined depth ecological setting similar school objective assessing handwriting developmental levels prescriptural graphomotor task studied copy line cycloid loops paper sheet put table task chosen reflects execution hand movements one end line anticlockwise direction handwriting new methodological approach applied incorporating maturative evolution posturalgestural features videorecorded analysis 2d reconstruction spatiotemporalkinematic measures collected digital pen connected analysis software tool assess developmental level provide understanding phenotypical features graphomotor gesture also evidence concurrent validity data displacements better spatiotemporal kinematic measures consequently phenotypical features posturalgestural spatiotemporalkinematic developmental genesis graphomotor gesture easy prescriptural task typically developing school children 1st 5th grade collected elementary schools five main patterns displacement gestures found production line loops significant developmental progress 1st 5th grade addition significant results comparisons spatiotemporal kinematic agerelated normative data highlighted associated quality coordination gesture lastly external validity relation normative values standardized handwriting scale bhk french adaptation concise evaluation scale childrens handwriting showed certain significant correlations spatiotemporal kinematic measures evolution displacement gestures five patterns used draw loops better motor control handwriting gesture less variety intersegmental jointscriptural task enabling handwriting developmental levels assessed screening handwriting disorders possibly cooccurring learning disabilities also useful clinical decisionmaking processes handwriting remediation simply assist handwriting gesture acquisition elementary school