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Abstract
Hand writing is an essential tool required by students. It is a complex process which involves close coordination between musculoskeletal and nervous systems. The purpose of the study was to determine the relation between developmental gross motor activities and hand writing skills in elementary school aged children. One hundred normal Egyptian children of both sexes were selected out of six hundred children from three private national elementary language schools, their ages ranged from 48 months to 72 months old. Fifty four children were in grade senior kinder (group A), and forty six children were in grade one (group B). Each child in both groups was evaluated individually by using peabody developmental motor scale (PDMS - 2) to determine the level of gross motor activities and the Mcmaster handwriting assessment protocol (MHAP) to detect level of hand writing skills including speed of near point copying, speed of dictation, hand dominance and type of pencil grasp. The results of the study revealed significant positive correlation between gross motor quotient and speed of near point copying in both groups :group A (r = 0.664, p = 0.000), group B (r = 0.769, p = 0.000), and significant positive correlation between gross motor quotient and speed of dictation in both groups: group A (r = 0.621, p = 0.000), group B (r = 0.667, p = 0.000). Results also revealed non significant correlation between gross motor quotient and hand dominance in both groups: group A (r = 0.440, p = 0.842), group B (r = 0.505, p = 0.617), and non-significant correlation between gross motor quotient and type of grasp in both groups: group A (r = 0.782, p = 0.09), group B (r = 0.759, p = 0.171). It can be concluded that in the selected grade levels, there was strong correlation between gross motor skills and speed of hand writing either in near point copying or dictation and no correlation between gross motor skills and hand dominance or type of pencil grasp