> >I'm going to test an student whose prefered writing arm has been amputated
> >for writing speed, as a preliminary to making exam time recommendation.
> >Before I do the same test on several 'normals',I thought perhaps someone on
> >dis-forum might know if there are any standard ranges for average normal
> >handwriting, presumably expressed in words per minute (like
> >typing/shorthand), for university level students.
To which Alison Cox said
> I would suggest that you need to decide why you are testing the writing
> speed of the student's non-dominant hand in order to make an exam time
> recommendation.
Can I support this by saying that the experience of clients I have
met who were forced to use their non-dominant hand is that their grip
is less relaxed and they simply do not have the capacity to write for
very long. Thus any test based on fifteen to twenty minutes may fail
to show that at thirty minutes the hand is simply worn out.
As a result I support Alison's suggestions of other means.
Dave Laycock MBE
Head of CCPD, Chair of NFAC
Computer Centre for People with Disabilities
University of Westminster
72 Great Portland Street
London W1N 5AL
tel. 0171-911-5161
fax. 0171-911-5162
WWW home page: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccpd/
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