Teaching Handwriting to Elementary Students With Learning Disabilities

Handwriting is an important skill for students to acquire in elementary school. Determining and delivering appropriate handwriting interventions to students with learning disabilities can be complicated. Teachers must juggle handwriting with other competing priorities and deal with shrinking amounts of instructional time devoted to handwriting in later elementary grades. The present article details findings from a recently published review of the handwriting literature and provides several solutions to identify, solve, and monitor handwriting difficulties. Delivery of handwriting intervention is discussed within a larger problem-solving framework.