Gedrene wrote:
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Not earlier I was dealing with someone who was associating autism with bad handwriting because his children had it.
That's not confirmation bias on the parent's part, it's backed up by scientific research.
It doesn't apply to all autistic individuals, but problems with handwriting skills, is certainly a commonly associated issue with autism, backed up by scientific research.
And there is other scientific research that provides the same results.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2777071/Quote:
Results:
We found that children with ASD do indeed show overall worse performance on a handwriting task than do age- and intelligence-matched controls. More specifically, children with ASD show worse quality of forming letters but do not show differences in their ability to correctly size, align, and space their letters. Within the ASD group, motor skills were significantly predictive of handwriting performance, whereas age, gender, IQ, and visuospatial abilities were not.
Conclusions:
We addressed how different elements of handwriting contribute to impairments observed in children with autism. Our results suggest that training targeting letter formation, in combination with general training of fine motor control, may be the best direction for improving handwriting performance in children with autism.
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