  Graphomotor and handwriting disabilities (GD and HD, respectively) could
significantly reduce children's quality of life. Effective remediation depends
on proper diagnosis; however, current approaches to diagnosis and assessment of
GD and HD have several limitations and knowledge gaps, e.g. they are
subjective, they do not facilitate identification of specific manifestations,
etc. The aim of this work is to introduce a new scale (GHDRS Graphomotor and
Handwriting Disabilities Rating Scale) that will enable experts to perform
objective and complex computeraided diagnosis and assessment of GD and HD. The
scale supports quantification of 17 manifestations associated with the
process/product of drawing/ handwriting. The whole methodology of GHDRS design
is made maximally transparent so that it could be adapted for other languages.
