Sensory Motor Lateralization as Handwriting Intervention in School-Based OT
Sensory Motor Lateralization as Handwriting Intervention in School-Based OT
Children who attend School-Based Occupational Therapy (SBOT) show mixed dominance and a
 liable decreased in the structural and functional differentiation between the two
 hemispheres. The lack of right-left disparity has been found to link to mirror invariance,
 poor spatial organization, fragmentary reversals, and handwriting difficulty. This study
 intends to find out, whether, Sensory Motor Lateralization (SML), "With" a rightward bias,
 profits handwriting more than the conventional (CON) "Without".
10 to 30% of school children suffer handwriting difficulty. Many of them are eventually
 referred to SBOT for remedial intervention. Among these children, 70% show mixed dominance in
 their hand and/or leg use, and a likely functional and structural interhemispherical
 asymmetry reduction. This would make them right-left symmetrical. Learning, thus, may be
 challenged, because people who are right-left balanced would not have a consistent reference
 point to process the learning materials regularly in any pre-determined directions. They are,
 thus, prone to suffer mirror invariance, fragmentary reversal errors, and handwriting
 difficulty, especially with the fast and accurate construction of asymmetrical letters from
 memory.

 To enhance right-left disparity, dispel mirror invariance, and facilitate the automatized
 handwriting, SML preferentially belabors one's right eye, ear, hand and leg in therapy, that
 would greater engage the left hemisphere for its acclaimed vantages over learning. This study
 investigates, whether SML, wielding such a rightward bias, profits handwriting greater than
 CON.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Any Special or Regular Education students with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs),
 OT mandates, and handwriting goals.

 -  Has Intelligence Quotient (IQ) equal to or above 60.

 -  Ambulatory.

 -  Proficient in English, and fluent in naming, identifying, and accessing the sequence
 of letters in the alphabet.

 -  The students who attend Physical Therapy (PT), Adaptive Physical Education (PE), and
 any other programs are included, if the programs being provided are skill-, theme-, or
 task-oriented, not involving any muscle strengthening activities.

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  All are excluded, if the study candidates have any medical condition(s) that would
 prohibit them from the full physical participation in school.