An Interesting Article on the Importance of Handwriting
June 6, 2014

At Forest Bluff School, we are dedicated to helping each child develop beautiful penmanship. As educators with many collective years of experience, we have observed that children in the process of learning to write are doing more than just learning to reproduce letters on paper; they are strengthening the connection between hand and brain and building their intelligence in a unique way that keyboarding simply cannot reproduce. Maria Konnikova, in her New York Times article, "What's Lost as Handwriting Fades," summarizes several recent studies that affirm these observations.

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