Handwriting - Facts

• Boys have higher frequency of handwriting problems then girls at initial ages.
• Regardless of his ability, student’s legibility and speed in handwriting are major factors determining a student’s achievement.
• Fluency in handwriting is a fundamental part of learning. The child thinks and writes at the same time, when we teach the children to write, we also teach them How to express themselves. If they struggle to form their letter, their ability to express themselves suffers. Children who doesn’t master handwriting may be slow, sloppy or illegibility in writing. Spelling and math are also affected.
• Handwriting is a brain’s writing. One can judge an individual’s mind state, personality from his writing style, pressure, slant, space and from margins etc. At different mind state writing differs and each time it will tell different story about the writer.

Funny facts

• At least 1 in 10 patients' health suffers because of physicians' handwriting. According to a study by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, illegible handwriting and transcription errors cause over 60% of the medication mistakes in hospitals.
• A plane crashed in December 1992 ... because of poor handwriting. The pilot misunderstood the co-pilot's scribbled notes and instrument readings. Acting on this wrong information caused the crash and resulting deaths.
• Similarly, internal investigation of a 1965 NASA failure revealed the surprising cause: an engineer's misread instructions.
• San Diego literacy researcher Patrick Groff has documented that at least one out of every three school teachers writes so illegibly that the students have trouble reading blackboard lessons, assignments, or the teacher's corrections on written work. This plainly makes learning - and teaching - a hazardous process.
• HOLIDAY HANDWRITING HAVOC: UK postal system destroys 5,000,000 illegibly addressed Christmas cards and letters
• Each year the United States loses over $200,000,000 for handwriting-related reasons.
• (a) people make phone calls to wrong or non-existent numbers ...
  (b) shipping firms deliver packages on the wrong dates or to the wrong addresses, or ship the wrong items.
• SARAH JESSICA WHO? How a handwriting error changed the name of your favorite actress

When celebrity-watching journalist Abigail Pogrebin interviewed HBO's Sarah Jessica Parker, the actress revealed that her family owes its last name to a series of bureaucratic blunders which included one handwriting error. Pogrebin quotes Parker in ABC news coverage: "My great-grandfather on my father's side [was surnamed] 'Bar-Kahn' ... and the immigration officer thought he said 'Parken.' He wrote his N's like R's, so 'Parken' became 'Parker' ... ".