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Dear Tom Do you remember Phyllis Riely from Phoenix I live in georgetown Texas now follow your information as always Luck Phyllis ---------- > 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 >