legibility is one of the most important characteristics of good urban environments which improves the communication between people and place by helping them to perceive and recognize their environment more deeply and precisely. unfortunately, achieving legibility in today’s urban environments has become very hard due to the increase in incoherent developments and partial renovation projects. mo...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the effects of school-based occupational therapy services on students' handwriting. METHOD Students 7 to 10 years of age with poor handwriting legibility who received direct occupational therapy services (n = 29) were compared with students who did not receive services (n = 9) on handwriting legibility and speed and associated performance components. Visual-m...

objectives: the main purpose of this study is to produce an instrument for handwriting evaluation and to execute it on mentally retarded (mr) students. methods: this was a descriptive, cross-sectional, and relationship study. 126 mr students (53 girls and 73 boys) ranging from 9 to 19 years old (13.23±2.17) from two exceptional children schools in shahr-e-rey participated in this study. a handw...

the objective of this article is to present the established components with regard to the visual quality and legibility of isfahan city according to lynch’s theory. data was gathered in isfahan mainly by way of observation and interviews. additional information was obtained from historical data and urban documents. in the opinion of the citizens, the zayandehrood river, as a natural urban compo...

The objective of this article is to present the established components with regard to the visual quality and legibility of Isfahan city according to Lynch’s theory. Data was gathered in Isfahan mainly by way of observation and interviews. Additional information was obtained from historical data and urban documents. In the opinion of the citizens, the Zayandehrood River, as a natural urban compo...

A laboratory study of sign legibility has shown that a contrast of between 30 and 50 percent is required to maintain 75th percentile legibility. Legibility distance increased gradually with greater contrast to about 80 percent; above a luminance ratio of 5 to 1, legibility did not increase greatly. As ambient levels increased, legibility distance increased linearly with the logarithm of either ...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the test-retest reliability of the legibility portion of the Evaluation Tool of Children's Handwriting-Manuscript (ETCH-M). METHOD The sample consisted of 31 first-grade and second-grade students with handwriting dysfunction. The ETCH-M was administered two times, 1 week apart, to participants. The primary investigator acted as sole rater and followed standard sc...