Despite the limited amount of literature on the relationship between visual perception and handwriting, visual perception is the perceptual-motor skill examined most frequently in relation to handwriting. However, results have not proVided convincing evidence for the contention that visual perception plays an important role in handwriting performance. Four studies have used a correlational design to investigate the role of visual perception in handwriting. Lewis and Lewis (1965) investigated the relationship between [he types of handwriting errors and visual perception, as measured by the matching sub[est of the Metropolitan Reading Readiness Test, in 354 non repeating first graders. Only a slight relationship between visual perception and the incidence of errors in letter formation was demonstrated. The authors did not report how the data were analyzed or how the exact correlation was established
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