The ability to write neatly and quickly is one of the crucial foundations of success in school and in life. Students who need to improve handwriting skill will often have difficulties in other areas of academic achievement, not because they lack the intelligence to achieve, but because their handwriting problems stand in the way of communicating the knowledge they have. You also know the frustration of exam papers with sloppy handwriting. You want to do justice to students’ efforts, but it can be difficult to recognize what they have written, because of how they have written it. Handwriting originates in the brain, when a mental picture of letters and words is formed. The brain then sends this mental picture, in the form of signals, to the arm and hand, through the muscles and nervous system.

When a person writes something, it is their hand that does the writing, but their brain that dictates how to write the letters. Handwriting is communicating through the act of writing information by hand. There are many components involved in the simple act of handwriting, which includes simultaneously controlling

There are several basic brain processes involved in handwriting. The proper focusing of the eyes, requires integration between the two hemispheres of the brain. Writing neatly and creating the magic of handwriting on paper, is a fine motor activity which requires good hand-eye coordination and good fine motor skill. Binocular teaming is the ability of both eyes to work together to provide accurate information to the brain. All forms of writing increase the left brain’s dominance over the right-an alphabet being the most abstract form of writing, enhances left-brain values the most. Cursive handwriting activates the Beta waves in the brain (i.e. active waves, working waves, creative waves).