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Handwriting Review 1987-1994

1987

  • NW Region Examinations Board Janet Tootall
  • Monitoring writing speed Jane Taylor
  • Cursive Writing and the Dyslexic: A Rationale Judy Capener
  • Step by Step Teaching of Cursive Handwriting Maxine Graville
  • A Checklist for Teachers Gay Hall

1988

  • 12 Rule for Good Handwriting Christopher Jarman
  • Seven year old pupils: handwriting competency and objective assessment Ann Gill
  • Children's attitudes to Handwriting Elizabeth Whitmarsh
  • Is there a future for 'joined up' writing? Penni Cotton
  • The Buzzwrite - An Aid to teaching writing M.J. Smithson
  • Towards a Handwriting Policy Jane
  • Handwriting Skills in the Primary School Norbury Booths Junior School, Cheshire Jean Alston
  • Psychological aspects of children with specific learning difficulties which also manifest in their handwriting Gay Hall
  • Differing Levels of Research: A personal view Rosemary Sassoon
  • Conductive Education: Are there implications for handwriting? Jean Alston.

1989

  • Left-handedness--is it a disability? Neil Gordon
  • Writing Flow and Legibility with All Direction Pens Prue Wallis
  • Some Sensory Motor Aspects of Handwriting Problems Stuart Bedford
  • A Report on a Pilot Study of Young Children's Writing Rob Mason
  • Handwriting in north Tyneside: Polices and provision in one local education authority Helen M Eadington, Jean Bunting and Rosalyn Mawson
  • The Foundations of the Writing Project Bill Michael
  • Cursive in Kingston upon Thames Paula Morse
  • Writing Quickly--Do we teach it and if so how? A pilot survey. Sheila Henderson, Reena Sen and Brenda Brown
  • Are you sitting comfortably? Christopher M Lewis and Alison Salway
  • A Sloping Desk? Should the wheel turn full circle? Brenda Brown and Sheila Henderson
  • A Mythology of Handwriting Teaching Christopher Jarman
  • Handwriting Problems: a different view of the writing trace Rosemary Sassoon
  • Handwriting: A Personal view Patrick Skinner
  • The Pen Stick Walter L Cook

1990

  • Young pupil's Letter Formation in Handwriting Barbara Brown and Gina Conti-Ramsden
  • The Constructive Use of the Handwriting Scale for Year 1 Children Carolina Sciriha
  • Cursive in Kingston upon Thames--Update Paula Morse
  • Handwriting in South Australia Michael Blackwell
  • Physiotherapy Alone is not enough! Judit Huba
  • Linking Letters for Writing and Letters for Reading Rosemary Sassoon
  • A Close Look as Children's Handwriting Difficulties Chia Swee Hong
  • Joining the ABC Charles Cripps
  • Handwriting in the National Curriculum Jean Alston
  • Foundation cursive: A new handwriting guide Paula Chapman
  • Penfriend Peter M Woolf
  • The importance of Good Models: Should children be exposed to joined writing on school entry as in France and many European countries? Penni Cotton

1991

  • The National curriculum; A Framework for the Assessment of Handwriting Linda Evans
  • The teacher as a judge of handwriting quality Lisa Hamstra-Bletz
  • Evaluating letter models on the basis of psychomotor criteria Raud G.J. Meulenbroek
  • Cursive writing in the early years: The views of teachers with experience in teaching cursive to children aged three to seven years Paula Morse
  • Introducing cursive script in the infant department Ann M
  • Word Cues...or Word Queues? The place of spelling in the writing process Marilyn Leach
  • Handwriting following transfer to secondary school-some interim research notes Rob Mason
  • Exercise in mini-school--a four day craftsman residency David Graham
  • Helping young children to join letters Prue Wallis Myers
  • Experiences on one handwriting teacher Gwen Dorman
  • Lined paper: a personal view Daphne M Tasker
  • Beware of so called Cursives Tom Gourdie
  • Handwriting- its decay and restoration in the twentieth century Tom Gourdie
  • Handwriting: beginning as you mean to go on Michael Kelly
  • Handwriting and presentation: The reality in secondary in schools Lyn Headon
  • Some sharp points for pencils Sue Lloyd
  • And with your compass, draw a circle S.A. Lowry

1992

  • English Attainment target 5: Strategies for Intervention Margaret Carter
  • Hand Made Writing Prue Wallis Myers
  • How the sloping board assists pencil hold and writing action in young children Prue Wallis Myers
  • Getting it right from the start: Beginner writers Paula Morse
  • Making marks since the year dot! Christopher Jarman
  • Italic Resurrection (again!) Michael Kelly
  • Young Children's Difficulties with Capital Letters Cicely Haines
  • The Specific Problems of the left hander Jean Alston and Prue Wallis Myers
  • A Handwriting Project undertaken in four Thanet Primary Schools Suzanne Tiburtius
  • Writing under Examination Conditions: Establishing a baseline Kenneth P Dutton
  • Assessing writing speeds Jean Alston
  • Handwriting following transfer to secondary school: further notes to follow those reported in Handwriting Review 1991 Rob Mawson
  • 'Do something about your handwriting!' Improving handwriting in the secondary school Peter Halliday
  • Can children recognise sex differences in the handwriting of other children? James Hartley
  • Remediating difficulties with the mechanics of handwriting Patricia Faulkner
  • Individual temporary exceptions from the National Curriculum: 1998 Education Act, Section 19 Helen Eadington and Joan Bunting
  • Sensory Integrative Foundation of Handwriting Skills Sidney Chu
  • Therapy for Handwriting: A Case Study Delia Curry
  • Specialised Teaching Projects: An opportunity for learning Barbara Needham, Ceri Powell, Rhona Stainthorp
  • Writing and handwriting difficulties in Russia Miriam Bezrukich

1993

  • Handwriting Speed and Special Arrangements in GCSE Chris Sawyer
  • Handwriting Speed, Specific Learning Difficulties and the GCSE C.E. Sawyer, M.E. Francis and E. Knight
  • Handwriting: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility Rob Mawson
  • Using Capital letter--a small scale project with Year 2 pupils Elaine McAllister
  • Towards a Whole School Policy Suzanne Tiburtius
  • Do you need a South Paw Club? Gwen Dorman
  • Working Towards a policy for handwriting and Spelling in the Secondary School Yvonne Hodder
  • The Way to Cursive Tom Gourdie
  • Developing a School Handwriting Policy Christopher Jarman
  • The Shortcuts that Lead to Fast Efficient Handwriting Rosemary Sassoon
  • Equipment to assist with pencil grasp Jennifer Pascoe, Sally Gore, D. Lindsay McLellan
  • Tools of the Trade: Where do we stand? Jane Taylor
  • The Effects of Physiotherapy on Clumsy Children's Drawing Marian
  • Children's Writing Development: The importance of visual models Penni Cotton
  • Issues in Teacher Education Rhona Stainthorp and Monica Hughes
  • The Romanian Writing System: What we can learn? Lois M Addy
  • Handwriting Hints Shirley A Hastings
  • The Experience of an adult with general coordination and handwriting difficulties Shirley A Hastings
  • Handwriting Schemes, models and material: A 1993 Survey
    • Write Ahead: Write Away: Handwriting Activities Copy Kit Tom Bernard
    • Ginn Handwriting Richard Brown
    • Berol: a Cursive Foundation Hand Paula Chapman
    • A Hand for spelling Charles Cripps
    • The Handwriting and Reading Spelling System (THRASS) Alan Davies
    • The Simple Modern Hand Tom Gourdie and Kay Dick
    • Developing handwriting skills Christopher Jarman
    • Joined up writing with Bigprint and Write to Spell Barbara Maines and George Robinson
    • Letterforms--Success from the start Bill Michael
    • Kingston Cursive: Teaching reading through spelling Paula Morse
    • The Movement into Writing Model Prue Wallis Myers
    • New Nelson Handwriting Peter Smith

1994

  • Write On Ian McKinlay
  • The Natural History of a Handwriter Rhona Stainthorp
  • A Rational approach to Handwriting Models G E Roe
  • 'It's fun writing in the juniors' Children's views about school writing David Wray
  • Special examination conditions for Pupils with Handwriting Difficulties: A Scottish Perspective Ken Dutton
  • The Teaching of Handwriting in Primary Schools: a current update Naomi Hartnell
  • A Decade and a Half in Handwriting Rosemary Sassoon
  • Young Children's Difficulty with Size of Lower Case Letters Cicely Haines
  • The St. Boniface Handwriting Scheme Janet Teadman and Jean Brolly
  • Children Learning to Write: How Should they be taught? Margaret Martlew and Lynn Perry
  • Parents and Children Handwriting Project at North Canes Primary School Jean Alston
  • Sixth international Conference on Handwriting and Drawing 1993 Marina M Schoemaker
  • Graphic Skills of Clumsy Children Anna Barnett
  • An improved sloping desk top: A controlled trial in South Australian schools Charles Charlton and George Kavanagh
  • Dysgraphic Handwriting Compared with Normal Handwriting Lisa Hamstra-Bletz
  • Self Esteem in Children with Motor Coordination Problems Annlaug Flem Maeland
  • The Alexander Technique and the interdependence of body use, ergonomic factors and pen holding Jonathan Drake
  • Christopher: A boy with inordinate handwriting and spelling difficulties Jean Alston
  • Introducing Cursive Writing to Infant Children in their First Year at School Dany Rosevear
  • Are you sitting Comfortably? Jean Lennox Barnes
  • The Development of writing Behaviour Anke W Blote

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