Learning to read in an alphabetic system requires children to understand that letters (graphemes) in written language correspond to sounds (phonemes) in oral language. To learn these novel associations requires several years of specific instruction. Using some methods early on to prepare children for this seems efficient, where the methods are designed to reinforce the link observed between perceptive and motor abilities during reading and handwriting acquisition. The main goal of this work was to understand the way manual haptic exploration of cursive letters can enhance pseudo-words decoding and handwriting fluidity in letters production in senior kindergarten children. To do so, we compared multisensory trainings involving haptic and visual modalities, in the proposed motor activities around the letters, to visual or haptic unisensory tranings. This work was realised according to two axes: for the first, in senior kindergarten children shown graphemes and phonemes, and for the second, in adults shown a new learning of unseen abstract forms and auditory stimuli. Results reveal that motor activity around letters and abstract forms does not enhance participant's memorisation despite exploratory motions intimately related to their shapes. Nevertheless, we showed in a robust way a more important associative learning of letters and sounds after a visuo-haptic exploration of letters. In addition, this enhancement is not only due to a more sequential exploration induced by the haptic modality but more to the motor activity per se. Haptic modality could be at the origin of a "binding" effect between visual and auditory stimuli. Finally, getting children into the habit of handwriting motion of cursive letters via a haptic exploration (arm robot device), enhances their handwriting fluidity. Demonstration of a static and dynamic model of letters could help children in the acquisition of some motor rules production (as strokes order and kinematics) and in the construction of more complete motor representations of letters. Taken together, results suggest a significant impact of the haptic exploration of letters in acquiring the skills of reading and handwriting and add weight to the suggestion that haptic exploration should be used in training programs designed to prepare children for acquiring these skills

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