Messy handwriting is one of the most common reasons children are referred to occupational therapists like me. Here are some strategies that can help → How to Improve Your Child’s Handwriting First, ...

Hetty Roessingh receives funding from SSHRC. A Werklund School of Education Teaching and Learning Support Grant provided funding for the development of the resource discussed in this story. University ...

I have a deep love of fountain pens. I’m not a collector. But since I was a little kid watching my mom making out her bills with a gray Esterbrook pen, I’ve been fascinated. There’s that arcane ...

Harvard professor Drew Gilpin Faust was teaching one of her undergraduate history seminars when she made a surprising discovery: Her students could not read cursive. "I just stopped in my tracks, I ...

In recent years schools have abolished handwriting lessons in place of computer keyboarding. But this week North Carolina became the latest state to veer back to tradition with the 'Back to Basics' ...

A third-grader practices his cursive handwriting at P.S.166 in the Queens borough of New York. Mary Altaffer AP With the governor’s signature (no doubt in cursive), California Assembly Bill 446 was ...

Most of us have heard the phrase: “You write like a doctor.” That means an individual’s penmanship is so sloppy that it’s difficult to read. Doctors have a reputation for poor penmanship but not to ...

Have you written a letter or signed your name and then stopped, self-conscious about the state of your cursive? Can anyone really read this? Should I start over? Maybe I should just scribble something ...

How is your handwriting these days? Do you even write anything by hand anymore? Most days, I may pick up a pen at work once at most or grab a pen to jot down a note at home or add to the grocery list ...

A bill that requires all Oklahoma public and charter schools to teach cursive writing to students in third through fifth grades has been signed into law. The Oklahoma House of Representatives said Gov ...