Comments From a Special Education Teacher in Toronto Remarking on a Boy that Attended the Arrowsmith School.

Handwriting Change: Motor Symbol Sequencing Improvement

Teacher's observation of student's handwriting change. July 16, 1987

As a high school special education teacher, I have had the opportunity to work with the following student the past two years in the area of English. We met on a daily basis for 40 minutes of classroom instruction. She has demonstrated dramatic improvements in handwriting. Whereas her written work was difficult to read and the uniformity of letters were terribly inconsistent and the spacing was poor, she now writes legibly! Her ability to organize and space written work on a page has improved; sentence structure has improved; there are fewer careless spelling errors in her written work, e.g. dropping off the ends of her words such as writing "cover" when she means "covered"; and productivity has increased. A. Prochaska

The following is a sample of the change in this student's handwriting. At top is an xample of handwriting prior to treatment and below that is an example after seven months of treatment. This student had a motor symbol sequencing dysfunction which resulted in the initial handwriting difficulties. No practice was given in handwriting. The changes seen here result from improved motor symbol sequencing functioning due to specific brain exercises designed at Arrowsmith Corporation.

Samples of Handwriting Changes