New findings published in the journal Neurology show that children with autism are more likely to experience problems with handwriting and forming letters than typical children.
Conducting research among 28 children between the ages of eight and 13, half of which had autism spectrum disorder (ASD), scientists affiliated with the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine administered the Minnesota Handwriting Assessment Test. Criteria for study included legibility, form, alignment, size and spacing.
Results showed that half of the children with autism earned less than 80 percent of the total points allowed, with the majority of problems in the area of form. However, parents should be encouraged to know that while handwriting quality suffered, the children with autism were able to align, space and size their letters just as well as the typical children studied.
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