About Handwriting Difficulties

• Has your child acknowledged any direct teaching of handwriting?
• What is the strategy for handwriting in the school?
• What are the main areas of concern?
• Legibility? (All or most of the words written can't be read out of perspective.)
• Neatness? (The handwriting is cluttered or poorly controlled.)
• Comfort? (The child is suffering from pain, strain or discomfort when writing.)
• Pressure? (S/he is pressing too hard or not hard sufficient, or pressure in one piece of lettering is mutable.)
• Speed? (S/he writes very leisurely, producing too little writing, or too fast, becoming inexact.)
• Motivation/enjoyment? (S/he is unwilling to write or gives up too easily.)

Answers to these questions can help to focus your thinking on the severity of the problem and what to do next.

At Home

• Lookout how he/she writes as well as what he creates.
• Watch at his/her general organization and his fine-motor organization with other tools, e.g. knife and fork. This will give a hint if immature or impaired motor organization might be contributing to the difficulty.
• Make sure he/she is in the correct surroundings for writing when at home, i.e. he is sitting at a table on a chair of the exact height, and not lying on the floor, in front of the Television or in double bed.
• Make sure his writing tools are suited to his/her age and abilities (pencils not too heavy or thin, pens not rough, etc.)
• Talk to him/her about how he/she feels about his writing? Does it anxiety him? Does he find it tough? Does he care about it?

If the problems continue you need to consult the school.

At School

Talk to the class teacher and ask the succeeding questions:

• Is she/he also worried about the handwriting?
• How, and how often, is handwriting imparted in class?
• Is there a particular method or style which is being used with the children?
• How can you, at home, care what they are doing at school?

Is being left-handed the reason of the problem?

Being left-handed is not of itself incapacity. The bulk of left-handers write as well as their right-handed peers. Some indication suggests that they develop smoothness a little later than right-handers because they are ´pushing´ the pen through the page rather than ´pulling´ it, but this should not be a problematic in the long-term.

Communal Problems in Handwriting

• Hold the pen in a stroppy manner.
• Find it tough to read and understand what is written.
• Handwriting is not legible.
• Write sometimes improved but not consistent.
• The Pen or Pencil is held nearly near the tip.
• Does not write quicker and the NOTES are imperfect.
• Gets the comment from the teacher "Improve your Handwriting".
• Does not join all the letters.
• Writing is very immoral or has a very bad writing.
• Very week in Writing and presses the pencil or pen deeply.
• While writing numbers, one cannot discriminate some of the numbers.
• Sentences are not inscribed on the lines and it goes up and down.
• Slant of writing is not reliable and it goes left, straight and right as well.
• While writing, fingers or hand become shaky.
• The child writes very small and cannot read them clearly.