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Handwriting
 Handwriting
is a complex human activity that entails an intricate blend of
cognitive, kinesthetic, and perceptual-motor components.
Handwriting is a major occupation of childhood that is vital for
school-children’s ability to function, work and participate in
the mainstream classroom environment. Elementary school children
typically spend up to 50% of the school day engaged in writing
tasks, some of which are performed under time constraints.
Furthermore, during their first three years of school, children
are expected to acquire a level of handwriting
proficiency that enables them to make skillful use of writing as
a “tool” to carry out their “work” at school. Poor hand writers
have difficulties developing their writing skills and as a
result, often suffer in their educational and emotional
development.
Handwriting difficulties is one of the most common reasons for
referring school-aged children to occupational therapists.
Hence it is a major focus of school-based occupational therapy.
To date, the major approaches to handwriting evaluation have
included global-holistic evaluations of readability and analytic
evaluations that assess readability in relation to predetermined
criteria. Therefore, a computerized system was developed by
Rosenblum et al. (ComPET
– Computerized Penmanship Evaluation Tool) to investigate
the process of handwriting in a measurable and accurate way.
Studies are conducted on children with dysgraphia, learning
disabilities, as Well as children with
Developmental Coordination Disorder.
Furthermore, as a result of the complexity of handwriting it is
considered that this tool may be sensitive to age and to
age-related impairments in cognitive functioning. Thus, such
assessment of handwriting might facilitate the diagnosis of
related impairments. As a result, studies using the ComPet
system are conducted with patients diagnosed
 with Alzheimer's
disease, Parkinson's disease, Multiple Sclerosis and healthy
elderly persons to examine their handwriting process
characteristics in relation to their every day participation in
daily occupations.
Published articles:
Heinik, J. Wenre, P.
Dekel, T. Gurevitz, I., & Rosenblum, S. (in press)
Computerized kinematic analysis of the clock
drawing task in elderly people with mild Major Depressive-
Disorder: An exploratory study. International
psychogeriatrics.
Rosenblum, S., Dekel, T., Gurevitz, I., Werner, P. &
Heinik , J. (2010). Handwriting process variables among elderly
people with mild Major Depressive Disorder: A preliminary study.
Aging: Clinical and Experimental Research, 22(2), 141-147.
Rosenblum, S, Aloni,
T., & Josman, N. (2010). Relationships between handwriting
performance and organizational abilities among children with and
without dysgraphia: A preliminary study. Research in
Developmental Disabilities, 31(2), 502-509.
Rosenblum, S., & H.
Eduardo -Roman (2009) Fluctuation analysis of proficient and dysgraphic handwritings in children. EPL-Europhysics letters
,85, 58007, 1-6.
Engel-Yeger,
B., Nagauker-Yanuv, L., & Rosenblum S. (2009).
Handwriting performance: The relationships between process and
product measures, children’s self-reports, and perceived
self-efficacy. Accepted, American Journal of Occupational
Therapy, 63(2), 182-192.
Luria, G., & Rosenblum, S. (2009) Introducing Computerized Handwriting
Evaluation tool: Testing its application in a pilot study as a
Lie Detector. Applied Cognitive Psychology,
Rosenblum,
S., Epsztein, L., & Josman, N. (2008). Handwriting
performance among children with Attention Deficit Hyperactive
Disorders (ADHD), on and off medication in comparison to a
control group – A pilot study. Physical and Occupational
Therapy in pediatrics, 28, 3, 219-234.
Rosenblum, S., &
Frisch C. (2008). Dysgraphia – characteristics and evaluation
method – contribution of research to clinical reasoning process.
The Israel Journal of Occupational Therapy, 17(3), H 155 (In
Hebrew).
Rosenblum, S. (2008)
Characteristics and evaluation methods of developmental dysgraphia: Research contribution to educational and clinical
reasoning. Research section, Handwriting today, 1-9.
Rosenblum, S. & Miri Livneh-Zirinsky.
(2008). Handwriting process and product characteristics of
children diagnosed with Developmental Coordination Disorder,
Human Movement Science, 27, 200-214 Special issue about
Developmental Coordination Disorders (DCD).
Rosenblum, S. (2008). Development, Reliability and Validity of
the Handwriting Proficiency Screening Questionnaire for
Handwriting Proficiency (HPSQ). American Journal of Occupational
Therapy, 62(3), 298-307.
Rosenblum, S. & Werner P. (2006). Assessing the handwriting
process in healthy elderly persons using a computerized system.
Aging: Clinical and Experimental Research, 8(5),433-439.
Rosenblum, S., Chevion, D., & Weiss, P. L.T. (2006) Using data
visualization and signal processing to characterize the
handwriting process. Pediatric Rehabilitation, 9(4), 404-417.
Rosenblum, S., Dvorkin, A., & Weiss, P. L. (2006). Automatic
segmentation as a tool for examining the handwriting process of
children with dysgraphic and proficient handwriting. Human
Movement Science, 25, 608-621. (Special issue about
Handwriting).
Rosenblum, S., Goldstand, S., & Parush, S. (2006). The
relationship between biomechanical ergonomic factors,
handwriting product quality, handwriting efficiency, and
computerized handwriting process measures in children with and
without handwriting difficulties. American Journal of
Occupational Therapy, 60(1):28-39.
Werner, P., Rosenblum, S., Bar-On G., Heinik, J., & Korczyn, A.
(2006). Handwriting process variables discriminating mild
Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment. Journal of
Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 61(B), 228-236.
Rosenblum, S. (2005). Using the Alphabet task to differentiate
between proficient and non-proficient handwriters. Perceptual
and Motor Skills, 100, 629-639
Rosenblum, S., Weiss, P.L. and Parush,
S. (2004). Handwriting
evaluation for developmental dysgraphia: Process versus product,
Reading and Writing, 17(5), 433-458.
Rosenblum, S., & Josman, N. (2003). The relationship between
postural control and fine manual dexterity. Physical and
Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 23(4), 47-60.
Rosenblum, S., Weiss, P.L. and Parush, S. (2003). Product and process evaluation of
handwriting difficulties: A review. Educational Psychology Review,
15 (1), 41-81.
Rosenblum, S., Parush, S. and Weiss, P.L. (2003). Computerized temporal handwriting
characteristics of proficient and poor handwriters. The American
Journal of Occupational Therapy, 57 (2), 129-138.
Rosenblum, S., Parush, S. and Weiss, P.L.
(2003). The In Air phenomenon: emporal and
spatial correlates of the handwriting process. Perceptual and
Motor Skills, 96 (3), 933-954.
Rosenblum, S. (2002). Using a digitizer for the evaluation of
handwriting difficulties. Israel Journal of Occupational
Therapy, (IJOT), 11, 2, H85-H86. (In Hebrew).
Shenkar, R., Gal, E., & Rosenblum, S.
(1995). Approaches and methods of Treatment for Handwriting
difficulties. Israel Journal of Occupational Therapy (IJOT), 4,
3, H102-H116. (In Hebrew)
Gal E., Rosenblum, S., & Shenkar, R.
(1995). Ways of Evaluating Handwriting Components and Penmanship
Resulting Thereof. Israel Journal of Occupational Therapy (IJOT),
4, 1, H15-H30. (In Hebrew)
Rosenblum, S., Shenkar, R., & Gal,
E. (1994). Writing-Components, Evaluation and Treatment.
Israel Journal of Occupational Therapy, (IJOT)
3, 4, H169-H191. (In Hebrew)
Articles in conference proceeding
Rosenblum,
S., Samuel, M., Zlotnik, S., & Schlesinger, I. (2009).
Handwriting performance measures of ‘real life’ tasks: A
comparison between the performance of patients with Parkinson’s
disease and controls . Advances in Graphonomics (pp.
43-47). Dijon, France: University de Bougogne.
Gafni-Lachter,
L., & Rosenblum, S. (2009). Temporal Aspects of
Handwriting Skill Development- A Computerized Study Utilizing
the ComPET Advances in Graphonomics (pp. 71-74). Dijon,
France: University de Bougogne.
Richardson, A.,
Kraus, S., Weiss, P. L., & Rosenblum, S. (2008).COACH -
Cumulative Online Algorithm for Classification of Handwriting
Deficiencies. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference
on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (pp.
1750-1751) (IAAI-08).
Hen, L., Josman,
N., & Rosenblum, S. (2008). Tele-Evaluation and
Intervention Among Adolescents with Handwriting Difficulties –
Computerized Penmanship Evaluation Tool (ComPET) Implementation.
Proceedings of the 7th ICDVRAT conference with ArtAbilitation
(pp.1-5). Maia, Portugal.
Rosenblum, S., Dvorkin, A. Y., & Weiss, P. L. (2005). Automatic
segmentation as a tool for examining the handwriting process of
children with dysgraphic and proficient handwriting . In A.
Marcelli & C. De Stefano (Eds.) Advances in Graphonomics. (pp.
84-90). Italy; University of Salerno.
Rosenblum, S., Parush, S., Epsztein,
L., & Weiss, P. L. (2003). Process versus product evaluation of poor handwriting among children
with Developmental Dysgraphia and ADHD. In H. L. Teulings & A. W. A.
Van Gemmert. Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the
International Graphonomics Socity. USA; Scottsdale Arizona. Pp. 169-173*.
Rosenblum, S., Parush, S. and Weiss, P.
(2001). Temporal measures of poor and
proficient handwriters. In Meulenbroek, R.G.J. and Steenbergen,
B.(Eds.) Proceedings of the Tenth biennial conference of the
International Graphonomics Society. (pp. 119-125). The Netherlands:
University of Nijmegen.
Rosenblum, S., Jessel, A., Adi-Japha, E., Parush, S. and Weiss,
P.L. (1997). Quantitative characteristics of typical and
dysgraphic children in Hebrew script. Proceedings of the Ninth
Biennial Conference of the International Graphonomics Society.
(pp. 71-72) Italy: Genova.
OTHER SCIENTIFIC
PUBLICATIONS
Rosenblum, S. (2002). Using Digitizer for evaluation of
handwriting difficulties. Israel Journal
of Occupational Therapy, (IJOT), 11, 2,
H85-H86. (In Hebrew)
Grant received:
ISF - Novel tools for the evaluation and remediation of
handwriting deficiencies of school-age children (Co-principal
Investigator with Prof. Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss. (2003-2004)
212,000 NIS.
VATAT- Computerized system for measurement, analysis and
visualization of pen pressure, squeeze and motion (2004) 10,000
$
University of Haifa, Research Authority prize for young
researchers: The contribution to the clients of visual
illustration of handwriting evaluation results (Co-principal
Investigator with Prof. Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss).(2004) 6000
NIS
Edmond de Rothschild Caesarea-: Tele-evaluation of handwriting
difficulties. (Co-principal Investigator with Prof. Patrice L.
(Tamar) Weiss and Dan Chevion). (2003-2004) 16,000 $
The Dean prize; Assessing the functional relevance of
handwriting in the diagnosis and development of Alzheimer's
disease: An interdisciplinary approach. (Co-principal
Investigator with Prof. Werner, P. and Dr. Jeremia Heinik).
(2003) 10,000 NIS
Ministry of Education (Israel) Quantitative characteristics of
the
handwriting of typical and dysgraphic children. (Co-principle
Investigator with Prof. Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss) (1999-2001)
80,000 NIS
“Ezvonot” Quantitative characteristics of the handwriting of
typical and dysgraphic children. (Co-principal Investigator with
Prof. Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss) (1998-1999) 20,000 NIS. |
