Today is National Handwriting Day! When you think of handwriting, you may think of the way you write your name or your penmanship during notetaking but what about the way you write? In today’s time, ...

Suzanne Baruch Asherson is a occupational therapist at the Beverly Hills Unified School District in California and a national presenter for Handwriting Without Tears, an early childhood education ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light ...

“Old-fashioned” and “useless” I thought could be me and my cohort of pre-boomers (those born before 1946) on our way into retirement homes and given to just doddering around the garden watering the ...

For well over a century, elementary school students were taught the loopy, fluid handwriting style called cursive. Then came the rise of digital devices, and schools began to prioritize teaching ...

Kate Gladstone is the founder of Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works and the director of the World Handwriting Contest. April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Good handwriting is not an end in itself. Rather, it is a means to literacy that fundamentally transforms the human experience.

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a recent ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The pen may not be as mighty as the keyboard these days, but California and a handful of states are not giving up on handwriting entirely. Bucking a growing trend of eliminating ...

No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do this, they don’t do that, and most egregiously of all, they don’t loop their ...