Required Handwriting Skills

The skill of handwriting requires several underlying skills before a student can effectively write. Below are the skills needed for handwriting:

Body & Spatial Awareness
Laterality
Directionality
Visual Perception
Visual Motor Integration
Postural Stability
In Hand Manipulation
Hand Separation
Hand Strength
Movement & Position Awareness
Motor Planning
Ocular Motor Control
Bilateral Integration
Eye Hand Coordination
Sensory Integration
Tactile Discrimination
Memory
Attention
Orientation to Letters
Sequencing