Your Therapy Source Magazine for Pediatric Therapists February 2016 | Page 5

Movement Scaling, Handwriting and ADHD
Journal of Attention Disorders published
research on 14 boys with ADHD and 14
typically developing boys ages 7-15 years
old. Each child was assessed while writing
a 10 mm and 40 mm cursive letter ‘l’. The
results indicated the following:
1. the boys with ADHD were unable to maintain
their writing accurately at 40 mm, falling short
by several millimeters whereas this was not
seen in the boys without ADHD.
2. the boys with ADHD also had slightly faster
and more fluent wr ][