Getting it "Write" on the iPhone, iPodTouch: new app, Better Letters "personal handwriting trainer

Nov. 24, 2009 - PRLog -- Getting it "Write" on the iPhone and iPodTouch:
new app, Better Letters "personal handwriting trainer," seen in GQ Magazine

Deep Pocket Series, a firm best known for its medical software, now offers an iPhone/iPodTouch application to cure bad handwriting.

That app, Better Letters, launched on November 10, 2009 -- eight days
later, it featured in the December 2009 issue of GQ magazine (page 128: sidebar in lower right corner on cyber-age resources for
handwriting improvement).

Better Letters is the brainchild of two people who care about the proliferation of bad handwriting in our high-tech times: Deep Pocket Series founder Harvey Castro, MD (an emergency medicine physician) and
Kate Gladstone, a handwriting improvement specialist known internationally as the "Handwriting Repairwoman." For $2.99, Better
Letters provides instructional lectures (both audio and written) along with practice fonts which offer a choice of writing style, guidelines,
and directional arrows -- turning the iPhone or iPodTouch into a personal handwriting trainer.

Unlike other handwriting apps, BetterLetters takes users beyond mere copying of onscreen worksheets. Over and above providing sample letters and numerals to trace and copy, the BetterLetters application
also includes features such as user-selectable "ink" color, a list of
299 suggested practice words (chosen to include every letter combination in the English language), onscreen instructional essays and audio composed and recorded by handwriting specialist Gladstone, a
built-in sketchpad for independent practice and application of handwriting skills, and several screenfuls of active links to
handwriting instruction web-sites selected by Gladstone to provide further resources for the study and practice of rapid, readable
handwriting.

Why think about handwriting in the computer age?

•  Even in the most highly computerized workplaces, computer networks crash or electric power fails. Even when computers and power sources function, physicians and other professionals must often must scribble
quick notes, or perform other handwriting tasks. For example, a physician in a computerized hospital will often still need to give ward clerks the day's handwritten records to read and process.

• Children, teens, and young adults face high-stakes exams, whose written sections increasingly include timed handwritten essays. (Since 2003, the SAT exam given to USA high school students has included a
timed handwritten essay which provides about 1/6 of the total SAT score. When schools neglect handwriting instruction or use
counterproductive instructional methods, BetterLetters allows students to gain and maintain competent handwriting.)

• Parents and teachers – at every level from kindergarten through graduate school -- often need to improve the legibility and speed of
their own handwriting in order to teach more effectively. (A teacher's handwriting, if it lacks precision and speed, can derail even the
best-planned lesson or demonstration at the board.)

Extra links:
Information on Better Letters --
   http://www.deeppocketseries.com/Better_Letters.php

Download page and screenshots for Better Letters --
   http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/better-letters/id335485938...

Further screenshots:
   http://www.deeppocketseries.com/plugins/albums/slideshow/...=

http://www.deeppocketseries.com/images/albums/NewAlbum_279b7/tn_main_better_letters.jpg

Contact info:
Harvey Castro, CEO of Deep Pocket Series --
   Harvey@deeppocketseries.com
Kate Gladstone, handwriting consultant for Deep Pocket Series
application Better Letters --
   handwritingrepair@gmail.com

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Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works provides consultation and training services (individual, small-group, and large-group) for the teaching and remediation of handwriting.