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Check out our list of qualified handwriting analysts here.

You can email us here or check out our list of available courses here.

Introduction to Handwriting Analysis for Personality Profiling Basic Certificate in Handwriting Analysis Comprehensive Certificate in Handwriting Analysis Handwriting Analysis Specialisation Modules Continuous Professional Development Forensic Handwriting Examination Course

For contact students: Fundamentals of Handwriting Analysis: approx 6 months + online activities (optional) + 3 hour exam Advanced Handwriting Analysis: approx 6 months + online activities (optional) + 3-hour exam Behavioural Handwriting Analysis: approx 7 months + online activities (optional) +3 hour exam Applied Handwriting Analysis:  approx 5 months + online

Forensic Handwriting Examination Are you involved in forensic work? Forensic Handwriting Examination is for those investigators, those working with law enforcement agencies and others needing to determine the authenticity of documents. Personality Profiling If you have a passion for understanding human behaviour, work with people in a variety

30 months.

Apart from Graphanex, some receive their training via the South African Police Services, others are trained online through American Associations such as ABFDE, ASQDE, QDE and several universities in America and the UK.  Often the courses through universities are only offered to postgraduate students.

Since there is no regulatory body in South Africa, to assess the standards of courses in forensic handwriting identification or document examination, our course is not accredited by any regulatory body. However, the course has been developed according to the UNODC guidelines and the ASTM (int’l) standards.

Document examination is an all encompassing science dealing with the examination of all kinds of documents and includes those documents which are handwritten.  This means that forensic handwriting analysis is one component of document examination.

Handwriting Analysis for Personality Profiling follows a process to use handwriting to determine personality. Forensic Handwriting Examination follows a process to determine the genuineness of writing on a document and does not measure personality.