Predicting occupational performance: handwriting versus keyboarding.
PURPOSE: To determine whether there is a correlation between handwriting and keyboarding speed and accuracy, and whether handwriting and keyboarding share common underlying components. METHODS: Sixty-three typically developing 5th-grade students attended a series of 15 keyboarding lessons for a tota...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 193 - 202 |
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American Occupational Therapy Association
Mar/Apr2004
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