Handwriting difficulties: Introducing an instrument

The main purpose of this study is to produce an instrument for handwriting evaluation and toexecute it on mentally retarded (mr) students.method: this was a descriptive, cross-sectional, and relationship study. 126 mr students (53 girls and 73boys) ranging from 9 to 19 years old (13.23±2.17) from two exceptional children schools in shahr-e-reyparticipated in this study. a handwriting checklist made by the researcher was executed on all students.data were analyzed by u-mann whitney, one-way anova, and spearman rank correlation.results: the test showed there isn’t a significant relationship between handwriting and laterality(p=0/196), sex (p=0/487) and age (p=0/449). there is a significant relationship between handwriting andgrade (r=0/448, p<0/005), but no significant difference was seen between different grades. “separate writing”caused minimum legibility (81%), and “spacing” was damaged at the least (34.9%).conclusion: the frequency of handwriting difficulties in mr students showed that the necessity of professionalattention in exceptional schools.