Document Type
Thesis
Date of Degree Completion
Summer 1974
Degree Name
Master of Education (MEd)
Department
Special Education
Committee Chair
Dohn A. Miller
Second Committee Member
Joe Schomer
Third Committee Member
Sam Rust
Abstract
Present systems for teaching handwriting are based largely on custom or preference of previous systems utilized (Templin, 1960). Groff (1960) mailed questionnaires to seventy-two large city school systems and found that decisions on handwriting programs are based on tradition and not on research findings.
Nineteen different handwriting systems supply about ninety-five percent of the instructional materials in use today in the United States. Many of these systems have not been changed in the last fifty years (Mullins, Turner & Saltzman, 1972).
Recommended Citation
Belter, Patricia J., "An Approach to the Teaching of Handwriting" (1974). All Master's Theses. 2198.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/2198
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