Examining Validity of the <i>Print Tool</i> Compared With <i>Test of Handwriting Skills–Revised</i>

Donica, Denise K.; Holt, Sarah A.

doi:10.1177/1539449218804529

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“…The THS-R is a norm-referenced standardised assessment of manuscript and cursive handwriting for children (Milone, 2007). The THS-R is widely utilised among occupational therapists in the outpatient and school settings due to the ease of administration and extensive use in research setting (Donica & Holt, 2019). THS-R is comprised of 10 subtests corresponding to the 10 writing tasks, one on each page of the test booklet, that measures how children write upper and lower case letters of the alphabet, numbers, words, and sentences (Milone, 2007).…”

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Handwriting skills of children with tic disorders

Simpson

Rowe

Yuen

et al. 2020

Aus Occup Therapy J

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Tic disorders (TD) are a group of developmental neuropsychiatric conditions in which an individual experiences motor and/or vocal tics beginning around the age of 5-8 years (Bitsko et al., 2014). TD are characterized by tics, which are brief, involuntary, non-rhythmic, recurrent, rapid, stereotyped motor movements or vocalisations that are often triggered by aversive interoceptive experiences (Ganos et al., 2015). TD are expressed across a continuum of severity and duration (Muller-Vahl, Sambrani, & Jakubovski, 2019) and include provisional tic disorders (PTD, tics present for less than a year), persistent/chronic tic disorders (CTD, isolated motor or vocal tics that last over 1 year) and Tourette syndrome (TS, motor and at least one vocal tic lasting more than a year; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). These diagnoses are categorized on the spectrum of TD with PTD often being less intensive and CTD and TS potentially being more severe (Muller-Vahl, Sambrani, et al., 2019). As many as 90% of

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Section: Handwriting Skills Assessmentmentioning

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Handwriting skills of children with tic disorders

Simpson

Rowe

Yuen

et al. 2020

Aus Occup Therapy J

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“…When assessing handwriting, Feder and Majnemer (2007) recommended also assessing necessary client factors such as a stable grip, in-hand manipulation skills, gradation of force, visual perception, motor planning/praxis, visual motor coordination, and visual memory-all components of the TeleWrite assessment. Additional prerequisites for handwriting include perceptual, motor, cognitive, and language functions as well as integration of these components (Donica & Holt, 2019).…”

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Preliminary Rasch Construct and Reliability Validation of TeleWrite: A Telehealth-Based Handwriting Assessment

Guzmán

Grajo

2023

OTJR: Occupational Therapy Journal of Research

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Background: Telehealth is rapidly expanding, and telehealth-based occupational therapy assessments must be developed and validated to keep pace with this transition. TeleWrite aims to bridge this gap. Objectives: To analyze the tool’s initial psychometric properties using Rasch methods. Method: Internal construct validity and test reliability were analyzed using data from 148 children from first to third grade. Results: Rasch analysis helped to identify that TeleWrite is composed of three separate constructs for rate, accuracy, and fluency. All Infit/Outfit mean square (MNSQ) values fell within acceptable ranges of 0.5 to 1.7 logits. Separation analysis indicated lower but acceptable person separation values for rate (0.68–0.76) and fluency (0.61–0.73), but accuracy scales were in the poor-fair range (0.20–0.60), given sample limitations. Conclusion: TeleWrite is comprised of three separate constructs, showed a good fit with the Rasch model, indicated strong construct and internal validity, and moderate ability to reliably separate abilities of students in terms of handwriting skills.

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“…Most recent research on writing difficulties were carried out in countries that use a phonogram-based language, such as the United States or the Netherlands [4,[17][18][19]. For example, The Test of Handwriting Skills (THS), developed by Gardner et al from the United States, was widely used in English-speaking countries [20].…”

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Reliability and validity of Handwriting Test for Preschool Children (HT-PRE): A new tool to assess the handwriting ability of preschool children aged 5–6 years old in Mainland China

Qin

Bei

et al. 2020

PLoS ONE

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Background Handwriting ability is related to many neuronal functions, such as visual-perceptual skills, orthographic coding, motor planning and execution, kinesthetic feedback and visual-motor coordination. To date, there is no specific assessment tool for to assess preschool children's handwriting ability in Mainland China. Our study aimed to develop a tool to assess the handwriting ability of children aged 5-6 years old in Mainland China and to analyze its reliability and validity. Methods The investigation comprised three phases: 1) original tool generation, 2) tool revision, 3) reliability analysis (i.e., interrater, test-retest) and validity analysis (i.e., content, criterion). Results The sample included a total of 482 children. The internal consistency (Cronbach alpha) was 0.74. The test-retest correlation coefficients ranged from 0.38 to 0.80. As expected, our data showed an improving trend in handwriting, and differences in respect to age and gender. When compared with the 'handwriting difficulty' group, each subtest score of children in the 'normal' group showed significant differences (p < 0.05). The correlation validity, compared with the visual-motor integration development test (VMI), was 0.17-0.52. Conclusion The Handwriting Test for Preschool Children (HT-PRE), which is a newly developed handwriting screening tool for preschool children aged 5-6 years old in Mainland China, has displayed a very good internal consistency, acceptable test-retest reproducibility, and good

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Examining Validity of the Print Tool Compared With Test of Handwriting Skills–Revised

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

Handwriting skills of children with tic disorders

Handwriting skills of children with tic disorders

Preliminary Rasch Construct and Reliability Validation of TeleWrite: A Telehealth-Based Handwriting Assessment

Reliability and validity of Handwriting Test for Preschool Children (HT-PRE): A new tool to assess the handwriting ability of preschool children aged 5–6 years old in Mainland China

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