Children with autism usually have difficulty to be able to write neatly, and identified this problem will continue to happen when they hit their teens.
It was revealed from the results of a recent study published in Neurology, a medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
The study included 24 girls and boys aged between 12 and 16 years. Half of the group with autism spectrum disorder and all the teenagers were given the assessment in the normal range for reasoning perception on IQ tests.
Testing is done by asking the teens to copy the words in example sentences with either the exact size and shape by using hand-written letters.
Assessment of handwriting is based on five categories: level of legibility, form, neatness (straight), size and spacing. Their motor skills, including balance and movement, was also tested and rated.
The study found that adolescents with autism gain 167 points from the total possible 204 points on the assessment of handwriting, as compared with 183 points for teens in non-autistic group. These results show a statistically significance in the study. Adolescents with autism also have a motor skills disorder.
Handwriting performance in young autistic reasoning scores predicted by perceptions, which reflect a person's ability to perform reasoning through problems with nonverbal material. "Skills reasoning to predict the performance of the handwriting indicates the existence of a strategy that can be done adolescents with autism to learn and use strategies to overcome the shortage of motor compensation," said study author, Amy Bastian, PhD, from the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine at Baltimore.
"Even adolescents with autism were more likely to have handwriting problems, there are several techniques to improve the quality of their handwriting, such as adjusting the pencil grip, stabilize the hand that writes with the other or write letters more slowly. This therapy can help teens with autism to achieve academic progress and develop socially, "said Bastian.
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