Handwriting fluency, latency, and kinematic in Portuguese writing system: Pilot study with school children from 3rd to 5th grade

dc.contributor.authorGermano, Giseli Donadon [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorCapellini, Simone Aparecida [UNESP]
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-29T16:04:35Z
dc.date.available2023-07-29T16:04:35Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-12
dc.description.abstractStudies have referred to the interaction between orthographic and motor aspects during the production of handwriting. However, studies with Brazilian Portuguese are still lacking. Hence, the aim of this study was to compare orthographic regularity, based on the Portuguese writing system, in high (HF) and low (LF) frequency words, in relation to latency and kinematic variables in students from the 3rd to the 5th grade of elementary school. This is a cross-sectional pilot study, with a convenience sample of 95 children participated in this study, from 3rd to 5th grade level attending a state elementary school. All were submitted to the following procedures of computerized evaluation of handwriting and submitted to the task of writing 15 HF and 15 LF words, selected according to the frequency criteria and classified according writing coding rule. Results indicated that for HF words, there was a decrease in writing and disfluencies production time, for all coding rules, from 3rd to 5th grade. However, for LF words, the more unpredictable orthographic affect production duration time, movement fluency, and students became more dependent on the use of gaze to check spelling aspects. This study revealed that lexical and sub-lexical activation affected motor production. For HF and LF words, lexical and sublexical process favored motor programming. However, for LF words, despite the maturation and school progression for the motor planes, there was an increase in latency time and in the need to search for word information, measured by the gaze variable for words with greater irregularity. This study has provided some evidence that linguistic variables such as orthographic regularity and word familiarity affect handwriting performance in Brazilian Portuguese written language.en
dc.description.affiliationLearning Disabilities Investigation Laboratory Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences São Paulo State University “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP)
dc.description.affiliationUnespLearning Disabilities Investigation Laboratory Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences São Paulo State University “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP)
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1063021
dc.identifier.citationFrontiers in Psychology, v. 13.
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1063021
dc.identifier.issn1664-1078
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85147126882
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/249618
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofFrontiers in Psychology
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectacademic competencies
dc.subjectevaluation
dc.subjecthandwriting
dc.subjectlearning
dc.subjectsocial vulnerability
dc.titleHandwriting fluency, latency, and kinematic in Portuguese writing system: Pilot study with school children from 3rd to 5th gradeen
dc.typeArtigo
unesp.campusUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências, Maríliapt
unesp.departmentFonoaudiologia - FFCpt

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