Hand writing and Autism- Its on the Wall!

I found this article on the Web about autism and handwriting.. WELL DUH is all I have to say, Old Working autism had this figured out long before Rain Man- Dr Rimland's Autism reworked Autism for the worse. This explanation will be new news to the autism 'Experts' that know us so very well but, our OPTIC vison is OFF while we are thinking so we can't always see what we are writing. Most Autiistc people don't realize their OPTIC and brain generated vision is interchanged and much of the time during the lack of eye contact our optic vision is off. Tell that to the 'experts'. Didn't Temple Grandin Write a book called Thinking in Picutres? Now add our Pain tolerance in the mix and we end up holding the pen or pencil too hard and push on the paper too hard and by the time we do all that, we can't have good penmanship. Of course that is a sign of Horrible autism and a sure sign of defect and the defect is not us; it's you the normal thinker that knows us so well. In reality you don't have a clue to autism and will not own up to those of us that build on Temple's Work and take it to the reaches of normal thought. Of Course Autism Speaks and they claim its time to listen but in reality autism is over a barrell and contemporary autism is off on a tangent started by the late Saint Dr. Rimland who was not playing with a full deck of cards himself.

Autism really is the building blocks of the mind, the logical fitting explantion for all things autism and psychology but like those before me like Di Vinci, Turing and Einstein we can not 'out class' the ignorance of people at large. Rich Shull, on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism

MONDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Autistic children are more likely to have handwriting problems, including trouble forming letters, than those without autism, researchers say.

The new study included 28 children, aged 8 to 13. Half of the study participants had autism spectrum disorder, but all of the children scored within the normal range for perceptual reasoning on an IQ test.

The children were asked to copy a scrambled sentence -- "the brown jumped lazy fox quick dogs over" -- to eliminate any speed advantage for children who were more fluent readers.

Five categories were used to score the participants' handwriting: legibility, form, alignment, size and spacing. Half of the 14 children with autism earned less than 80 percent of the total possible points, compared with one of 14 children in the group without autism. Nine of the children with autism scored below 80 percent in the form category, compared with two of the children without autism, the researchers reported.

The overall handwriting quality was poorer in children with autism, but all of the children in both groups were able to align, space and size their letters equally well, the study authors noted in their report in the Nov. 10 issue of Neurology.

"Our results suggest that therapies targeting motor skills may help improve handwriting in children with autism, which is important for success in school and building self-esteem," study author Amy Bastian, of the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, said in a news release from the American Academy of Neurology. "Such therapies could include training of letter formation and general training of fine motor control to help improve the quality of their writing."

More information

The U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has more about autism.



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