AU - Hadavandkhani, Fatemeh AU - Bahrami, Hadi AU - Behnia, Fatemeh AU - Farahbod, Mozhgan AU - Salehi, Masoud TI - Relationship between Spatial Analysis and Handwriting in Mentally-Retarded Students of Shah-e Rey (2006) PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - USWR JN - USWR VO - 8 VI - 2 IP - 2 4099 - http://rehabilitationj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-168-en.html 4100 - http://rehabilitationj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-168-en.pdf SO - USWR 2 AB  - 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 CP - IRAN IN - LG - eng PB - USWR PG - 63 PT - Original YR - 2007