Part 1 Development of written language: where writing starts - the analysis of action applied to the historical development of writing. Part 2 Dynamics of development - writing: a new method for the evaluation of handwritten material characteristics of the developing handwriting skill in elementary education a developmental study of the relation between movement patterns in letter combinations (words) and writings. Part 3 dynamics of development - drawing: the development of drawing principles in Chinese isochrony and accuracy of drawing movements in children - effects of age and context. Part 4 Individual differences - the development of style: is the inverted handwriting posture really so bad for left-handers? the effect of teachers' personal handwriting on their reproduction of school handwriting models developmental dynamics of handwriting - appraising the relation between handwriting and personality. Part 5 Dysfunction: development of reading, spelling and writing skills from third to sixth grade in normal and dysgraphic school children the identification of dyslexic handwriting through graphoanalysis estimating a child's learning potential from form errors in a child's printing variability in children's handwriting - computer diagnosis of writing difficulties. Part 6 Remedial issues: dysfluency in children's handwriting handwriting training - computer aided tools for remedial drawing and handwriting difficulties - reasons for and remediation of dysfunction.