November 9, 2009 (Baltimore, MD) – Handwriting skills are crucial for success in school, communication, and building children's self-esteem. The first study to examine handwriting quality in children ...

Letters inscribed on pottery, known as ostracons, which were unearthed in an excavation of a fort in Arad, Israel, and dated to about 600 B.C. shortly before Nebuchadnezzar’s destruction of Jerusalem, ...

Are you an outgoing, sceptical people pleaser? Or an arrogant, practical person who has a tendency to lie? According to research from the National Pen Company in the U.S., your handwriting can give ...

There’s a glimmer of hope if you’re looking for last-ditch strategies to save your child from the halls of stupidity. A study published this week in the journal Frontiers of Psychology found that good ...

A new study by an M.D. from John Hopkins School of Medicine was on the newswire, reporting that "Children with autism lag behind their classmates in the area of handwriting and can benefit from ...

• Handwriting can help people better understand untrained tasks compared to other forms of note-gathering. • The brain works differently when comprehending handwriting. • Cursive handwriting (script) ...

A recent study suggests that a little handwriting instruction can go a long way in staving off writing problems. The report, by researchers at the University of Maryland College Park is based on a ...

One in four medical prescriptions analysed in study published in the Malta Medical Journal, are written in poorly legible handwriting. Doctors’ reputation for poor handwriting has been officially ...

New research has analyzed brainwave patterns in both children and young adults while they wrote by hand and as they typed on a keyboard. The results revealed distinctly different brain patterns ...