Detailed Assessment of Speed of Handwriting (DASH) is a reliable, age-appropriate measure of handwriting speed for children. DASH helps identify kids with handwriting difficulties and provides relevant information for intervention planning. Guidance on using this test in your telepractice.DASH-2 has officially been released! A combination of revisions of the original DASH and DASH 17+, this new assessment is ready for order.
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Detailed Assessment of Speed of Handwriting

DASH

Detailed Assessment of Speed of Handwriting (DASH) is a reliable, age-appropriate measure of handwriting speed for children. DASH helps identify kids with handwriting difficulties and provides relevant information for intervention planning. Guidance on using this test in your telepractice.DASH-2 has officially been released! A combination of revisions of the original DASH and DASH 17+, this new assessment is ready for order.
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Publication date:
2006
Age range:
9:0 – 16:11
Qualification level:
B
Completion time:
30 Minutes
Administration:
Paper and Pencil, Group or Individual

The Detailed Assessment of Speed of Handwriting can be used to help identify children with handwriting difficulties.

Benefits

  • Provides standardized subtest scores.
  • Provides composite scores.
  • Offers reliability, based on a nationally stratified normative sample of over 500 children collected across the UK in 2006.

Features

DASH includes 5 subtests that are administered and scored by hand.

  • Subtests examine fine motor and precision skills.
  • The speed of producing well known symbolic material is tested
  • The ability to alter speed of performance on two tasks with identical content and free writing competency is tested.

Resources

Telepractice

Find out how to use this test in your telepractice.

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