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Handwriting in primary school: comparing standardized tests and evaluating impact of grapho-motor parameters
A growing number of primary school students experience difficulties with grapho-motor skills involved in handwriting, which impact both form and...
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Spelling processing during handwriting and ty** and the role of reading and visual-motor skills when ty** is less practiced than handwriting
The automatization of handwriting and ty** is sustained by both sensorimotor and linguistic abilities that support the integration of...
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Executive functions mediate fine motor skills’ contribution to literacy achievement: a longitudinal study of Arabic-speaking children
Fine motor skills (FMS) are among the most studied nonlinguistic factors influencing early literacy acquisition. Although developmental studies have...
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Defining the relationship between fine motor visual-spatial integration and reading and spelling
New research suggests that mechanisms involved in fine motor skills play an important role in reading and writing development. Extending past work...
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Exploring the writing-reading connection among Arabic-speaking kindergarten children: the role of fine motor skills and orthographic knowledge
Although most studies in the field of literacy development suggest that writing and reading are two sides of the same coin, very little is known...
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Does the Activation of Motor Information Affect Semantic Processing?
Several behavioral studies show that semantic content influences reach-to-grasp movement responses. However, not much is known about the influence of...
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Handwriting production in Spanish children with dyslexia: spelling or motor difficulties?
Spelling and handwriting are different processes; however, they are learned simultaneously, and numerous studies have shown that they interact....
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The longitudinal relationship between early inhibitory control skills and emergent literacy in preschool children
This study analyses the longitudinal relationship between early inhibitory control skills and subsequent emergent literacy. At Time 1, a sample of 50...
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The involvement of inhibition in word and sentence reading
Individual differences in reading performance between children appear from the onset of literacy acquisition. One possible explanation for this...
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The relationship of handwriting ability and literacy in kindergarten: a systematic review
Evidence supports a link between handwriting and aspects of literacy, including both reading and writing. Most evidence, however, pertains to...
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Multisensory Pronunciation Training in a Video Conference-Based Foreign Language Classroom
Speech production is multimodal and multisensory. We present a novel approach to segmental pronunciation instruction that directs foreign...
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The relationships between paired associate learning and Chinese word writing in kindergarten children
This study investigated the construct of paired associate learning (PAL) and its associations with Chinese word writing in kindergarten children. A...
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Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative illness that leads to motor difficulties, cognitive impairments and impairments in social...
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Huntington’s Disease
Huntington’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder with progressive motor, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric impairments. There is evidence that...
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Children with handwriting difficulties: develo** orthographic knowledge of alphabet-letters to improve capacity to write alphabet symbols
Orthographic knowledge of alphabet-letters is thought to mediate accurate motor execution of letter-writing. This study examined the effectiveness of...
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Nature’s Puzzles: An Ecocritical Theorisation of Children’s Activity Books
A large proportion of contemporary children’s activity books are nature-themed, focusing on animals, ecosystems or seasons, for example. Their...
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a complex multisystem disease characterized by the neurodegeneration of peripheral and central motor neurons....
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Visual-orthographic skills predict the covariance of Chinese word reading and arithmetic calculation
This study provides evidence connecting two aspects of visual-orthographic skills (orthographic awareness and delayed copying) to the common variance...
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Effects of metalinguistic awareness on Chinese as a second language spelling through the mediation of reading and copying
This study investigated the influence of various types of Chinese metalinguistic awareness on spelling through the mediation of character reading and...
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Visual-motor integration and reading Chinese in children with/without dyslexia
Visual-motor integration is an ability to coordinate the visual information and limb movement, which has direct relevance to Chinese handwriting...