Top Ten Most Popular Baby Names of 2012: How easy will they be to handwrite? :)

According to BabyCenter.com, the most popular 2012 baby names are:Male Names, starting at most popular:Liam, Ethan, Noah, Mason, Jacob, Jack, Aiden, Logan, Jackson, LucasFemale Names starting at most popular:Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava, Isabella, Mia, Ella, Emily, Lily, ChloeHow does this relate to occupational therapy? Any occupational therapist who has ever had to teach handwriting and teach a young child how to write their name, knows how crucial teaching a name can be. It's often the first thing the child starts writing, starting in preschool, and has to jot hastily down on every piece of paper for the rest of their lives. For ANY child, special needs or not, a short name (or an easy nickname) with primarily vertical lines and at best a few curves will be easiest. Diagonals are the trickiest and require more developmental maturity than vertical and horizontal lines. And some letters are more prone to reversals than others such as b, d, p, q. When I look at these top tens from a Handwriting Without Tears standpoint, none of them look too bad for a child with special needs to have to write. For Isabella, I'd vote for shortening it to "Bella" rather than "Izzy" because it is a really challenging one, two z's and a y! Diagonal city!If I had to name my child and knew in advance they would have significant special needs, I'd possibly try to find a 3 to four letter name that started with either a capital E, F, T, or L, and then had just a few simple lowercase letters, id...
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