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Tom, et al.... I CAN do a readable printing job, however, it's sloooooooooow. VERY slow! And because of printing so slowly, I often forget what I was trying to take not of! Not only that, in when someone ELSE is saying something I want to mote on paper, like an address or phone number, they usually don't speak at the same sloooooow speed I print at. Ergo, I either end up not being able to print enough of the message (and in this case I'm thinking of info given via phone) to get it all down before the individual I'm speaking to hangs up, or in an effort to print faster, I juxtapose characters I print and can't decipher what I was trying to print. <GRRRRRRR.....> Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Tom Riess <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Monday, July 26, 1999 3:51 PM Subject: handwriting For handwriting problems which are not a result of tremor I have found that the following works for many pwp although it is somewhat slow and cumbersome. First of all one must print and secondly one must form letters in a non-usual manner. For example a "T" is usually drawn by making a vertical line top to bottom and then a horizontal line left to right. A non-usual "T" is drawn bottom to top for the vertical line and then right to left for the horizontal line. Printing in this fashion will produce legible letters. Why does this work? Here's my speculation. A fundamental impairment in PD is simultaneous task performance. How many of us can't walk and carry on a conversation at the same time. Writing is a simultaneous task activity i.e. one must form the syntax of what one is expressing while at the same time form the letters themselves. Non-usual printing forces one's attention to focus more on the act of drawing the letters at the expense of paying attention to the syntax. A similar mechanism occurs in speech. regards, Tom