Letter Form Assessment Version 2 (LFA)

The Letter Form Assessment Version 2 (LFA) is an individual, standardised, performance based assessment that has been developed to measure handwriting fluency acquisition for children who are learning to write, or have difficulties with handwriting acquisition. The LFA evaluates handwriting fluency acquisition for beginning writers, and is validated for children who have had an introduction to letter names, sounds and forms and who are at least in the first year of formal schooling (in Australia, this foundation year is known as kindergarten, preparatory, reception, or transition). Administration of the LFA follows a standard procedure, which can be learnt by completing the training module in the User Instructions and Training Module document (Section 5). Administration of the assessment takes between five and ten minutes. The LFA was devised and developed in Australia and can be used for any alphabetic font both in Australia and internationally. The attached videos and audio (below) must be used in conjunction with the LFA User Instructions and Training Module document, in order to learn to administer the assessment correctly. Connect with @Karen_L_Ray on Twitter. Enquiries welcome at lfa@newcastle.edu.au