Assessing and Subtypes of Writing in Chinese School Children / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective: To develop tools for assessing writing skills in Chinese children and classifying its subtypes. Methods: Using tasks of character copy, free writing according to pictures, shape copy and writing to dictation, 65 children with writing difficulties reported by their parents were investigated.Results: the inter rater reliability of character copy, free writing, and shape copy were high. Children could be classified into four subtypes based on character copy and free writing.Conclusion:Character writing skill and written expression are two factors for assessing Chinese writing. Patterns between subtypes at these two tasks are different.