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> Aside: Teaching kids cursive also still has value in teaching fine motor skills. It's also been shown to be helpful for students with dyslexia.
by LyndsySimon 9y ago
> Aside: Teaching kids cursive also still has value in teaching fine motor skills.
It's also been shown to be helpful for students with dyslexia.
- tnecniv 9y agoIt's also arguably faster since you aren't lifting the pen from the paper. I don't write in "formal" cursive, but there's definitely cursive elements in my (cruddy) penmanship, and I know a lot of people who write similarly.
- KateGladstone 9y agoThe studies which I’ve seen cited as proving that turned out, when I checked the actual citations, not to have proven it. Two examples of research showing cursive's lack of observable benefit for students with dyslexia/dysgraphia: "Does cursive handwriting have an impact on the reading and spelling performance of children with dyslexic dysgraphia: A quasi-experimental study." Authors: Lorene Ann Nalpon & Noel Kok Hwee Chia — URL: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/234451547_Does_cursive_handwriting_have_an_impact_on_the_reading_and_spelling_performance_of_children_with_dyslexic_dysgraphia_A_quasi-experimental_study http://www.researchgate.net/publication/234451547_Does_cursi... and http://dyslexia.yale.edu/EDU_keyboarding.html http://dyslexia.yale.edu/EDU_keyboarding.html