“When children are exposed to cursive handwriting, changes occur in their brains that allows a child to overcome motor challenges” -Dr. David Sortino psychologist and current director of Education Strategies (3). On average a child in the United States learns cursive in the third or fourth grade. Generally as one grows up they only use cursive to sign their name if even that. Yet cursive is a vital learning tool that needs to continue being taught in schools.
First of all it is an absolute necessity for one to be able to form one's name in cursive. “Thomas Jefferson penned one of our country's most famous documents, the Declaration of Independence, in glorious cursive” (Tarshis 1). Signing one's name and writing in cursive is a tradition, some of the smartest people to ever walk our earth have written in cursive. For an example Albert Einstein wrote in a form of medieval cursive (Albert Einstein's Handwriting 1). Besides the tradition it is
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Cursive can ultimately help children with special needs improving their motor skills. Dr. David Sortino psychologist and current director of Education Strategies implemented cursive in his special education classroom “after about six months, the students were showing one to two years academic growth in word attack, reading fluency and reading comprehension as defined by popular achievement tests” (Sortino 3). The loopy style of cursive directly influences the part in the brain called the cerebellum which is directly involved with one's kinesthetic intelligence according to Dr. Sortino’s research. Cursive in general helps young children attain needed motor skills “learning cursive is good for children’s fine motor skills, and writing in longhand generally helps students retain more information and generate more ideas”(Steinmetz 2). Just by learning cursive it can help all kinds of students in the long run and by writing in it regularly it can be greatly