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Writing and Drawing Performance of School Age Children

Is There Any Relationship?

Fotini Bonoti

University of Thessaly, Greece, fbonoti{at}uth.gr

Filippos Vlachos

University of Thessaly, Greece

Panagiota Metallidou

University of Thessaly, Greece

The aim of our study was to investigate possible relationships between writing and drawing performance of school-aged children, in order to compare the two skills at the within-individual level. The sample consisted of 182 right- and left-handed children, aged 8 to 12 years. Children were examined by the Greek adaptation of the Luria-Nebraska neuropsychological battery in spontaneous writing, copying and writing to dictation and they were asked to complete four different drawing tasks. The results produced significant correlations between drawing scores and scores in all three writing tasks. Significant differences in drawing performance among proficient and poor hand writers were also found. On the other hand, there were no significant differences between right- and left-handers’ performance on the above tasks, despite the overrepresentation of left-handed amongst between poor writers. Our findings create a fruitful ground for the further study of early drawing as a means to predict later handwriting problems.

School Psychology International, Vol. 26, No. 2, 243-255 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0143034305052916
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