Study of Pattern of Change in Handwriting Class Characters with Different Grades of Myopia
Introduction: Handwriting is a visuo-motor skill highly dependent on visual skills. Any defect in the visual inputs could affect a change in the handwriting. Understanding the variation in handwriting characters caused by visual acuity change can help in identifying learning disabilities in chil...
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| description | Introduction: Handwriting is a visuo-motor skill highly
dependent on visual skills. Any defect in the visual inputs could
affect a change in the handwriting. Understanding the variation
in handwriting characters caused by visual acuity change can
help in identifying learning disabilities in children and also
assess the disability in elderly. In our study we try to analyse
and catalogue these changes in the handwriting of a person.
Materials and Methods: The study was conducted among
100 subjects having normal visual acuity. They were asked to
perform a set of writing tasks, after which the same tasks were
repeated after inducing different grades of myopia. Changes in
the handwriting class characters were analysed and compared
in all grades of myopia.
Results: In the study it was found that the letter size, pastiosity,
word omissions, inability to stay on line all increase with changes
in visual acuity. However these finding are not proportional to
the grade of myopia.
Conclusion: From the findings of the study it can be concluded
that myopia significantly influences the handwriting and any
change in visual acuity would induce corresponding changes in
handwriting. There is increase in letter size, pastiosity where as
the ability to stay on line and space between the lines decrease
in different grades of myopia. The changes are not linear and
cannot be used to predict the grade of myopia but can be used
as parameters suggestive of refractive error. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2c5c696ebe2943258cb8c96cc562d2472022-12-22T03:27:22ZengJCDR Research and Publications Private LimitedJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research2249-782X0973-709X2015-12-01912HC01HC0410.7860/JCDR/2015/15942.6960Study of Pattern of Change in Handwriting Class Characters with Different Grades of MyopiaShruti Prabhat Hedge0Vijay Kautilya Dayanidhi1Sriram2Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Shri Sathya Sai Medical College & Research Institute, Ammapettai, Chennai, India.Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic medicine & Toxicology, Shri Sathya Sai Medical College & Research Institute, Ammapettai, Chennai, India.Student, Shri Sathya Sai Medical College & Research Institute, Ammapettai, Chennai, India.Introduction: Handwriting is a visuo-motor skill highly dependent on visual skills. Any defect in the visual inputs could affect a change in the handwriting. Understanding the variation in handwriting characters caused by visual acuity change can help in identifying learning disabilities in children and also assess the disability in elderly. In our study we try to analyse and catalogue these changes in the handwriting of a person. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted among 100 subjects having normal visual acuity. They were asked to perform a set of writing tasks, after which the same tasks were repeated after inducing different grades of myopia. Changes in the handwriting class characters were analysed and compared in all grades of myopia. Results: In the study it was found that the letter size, pastiosity, word omissions, inability to stay on line all increase with changes in visual acuity. However these finding are not proportional to the grade of myopia. Conclusion: From the findings of the study it can be concluded that myopia significantly influences the handwriting and any change in visual acuity would induce corresponding changes in handwriting. There is increase in letter size, pastiosity where as the ability to stay on line and space between the lines decrease in different grades of myopia. The changes are not linear and cannot be used to predict the grade of myopia but can be used as parameters suggestive of refractive error.https://jcdr.net/articles/PDF/6960/15942_CE[Ra]_F(Sh)_PF1(BMAK)_PFA(AK)_PF2(PAG).pdfpastiosityrefractive errorswriting disabilityvisual acuity |
| spellingShingle | Shruti Prabhat Hedge Vijay Kautilya Dayanidhi Sriram Study of Pattern of Change in Handwriting Class Characters with Different Grades of Myopia Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research pastiosity refractive errors writing disability visual acuity |
| title | Study of Pattern of Change in Handwriting Class Characters with Different Grades of Myopia |
| title_full | Study of Pattern of Change in Handwriting Class Characters with Different Grades of Myopia |
| title_fullStr | Study of Pattern of Change in Handwriting Class Characters with Different Grades of Myopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Study of Pattern of Change in Handwriting Class Characters with Different Grades of Myopia |
| title_short | Study of Pattern of Change in Handwriting Class Characters with Different Grades of Myopia |
| title_sort | study of pattern of change in handwriting class characters with different grades of myopia |
| topic | pastiosity refractive errors writing disability visual acuity |
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