Handwriting in signing deaf middle-school students and relationship with text composition and spelling

This study showed that handwriting difficulties, in terms of executing the letters of their firstname and surname, as well as retrieving the letters of the alphabet from memory, persist in 15-year-old signing deaf students, and represent a constraint during text production, impairing spelling a s well as text content richness and word fluency.
Source: Reading and Writing - Category: Child Development Source Type: research