%0 Journal Article %A Hadavandkhani, Fatemeh %A Bahrami, Hadi %A Behnia, Fatemeh %A Farahbod, Mozhgan %A Salehi, Masoud %T Relationship between Spatial Analysis and Handwriting in Mentally-Retarded Students of Shah-e Rey (2006) %J Archives of Rehabilitation %V 8 %N 2 %U http://rehabilitationj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-168-en.html %R %D 2007 %K Spatial analysis, Handwriting, Mentally-retarded students, Exceptional children, %X Objective: Handwriting difficulty is a common problem in mentally-retarded students. This article investigates the relationship between handwriting and spatial analysis. Materials & Methods: One hundred and twenty six mentally- retarded students (53 girls and 73 boys) ranging from 9 to 19 years old from two exceptional children schools in Shahr-e-Rey participated in this cross – sectional and descriptive survey. A handwriting check-list made by the researcher along with the subtest of designing with cubic from Wechsler scale (WISC-R) was executed on all of the students. Data was analyzed by using Independent T-test, U-Man Witeny, Kruskal-Wallis and Spearman correlation coefficient. Results: Correlation coefficient showed that there is a significant relationship between handwriting scores and spatial analysis scores (r=0/305, P %> http://rehabilitationj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-168-en.pdf %P 63-68 %& 63 %! %9 Original %L A-10-1-162 %+ Department of Psychology & Education Exceptional Children, University of Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. %G eng %@ 2538-6247 %[ 2007