Dysgraphia
As a parent, you know your child is bright but their handwriting is horrible and they just can’t seem to get their thoughts down on paper.
Dysgraphia is a term used to identify children struggling with “visual motor execution,” and is a recognized learning disability.
There are different types of dysgraphia but in the end all it boils down to poor written expression (handwriting).
Science has yet to identify a true cause of dysgraphia in children. It is usually attributed to poor fine motor skills (using your fingers and hands) and/or decreased visual perception skills. Some theorize a left right brain communication error and certainly learning activities which specifically address neuro processing can strengthen those connections.
Although children with dysgraphia may have other learning disabilities, dysgraphia does not indicate an intellectual impairment. In fact there are rarely any co-existing academic or social issues.
A child with dysgraphia can easily recount a story to you without any hesitancy or errors, but when asked to write about the same story, they produce an illegible page of nonsense. There are a capital letters in random places, letters range in size from tiny to huge- sometimes in the same word. Spacing between words and between each letter is inconsistent, and very often you will see reversed and mirrored letters.
True dysgraphia exists DESPITE appropriate instruction on how to form letters. The child knows what they want to write, knows what words they want to use and how each letter should look, but somehow the brain is unable to communicate that information to the fingers.
Children with dysgraphia are learning with disabilities, they can learn, they do learn, but they learn differently.
The Therapy Group offers neurologically based therapeutic programs designed specifically to improve processing skills.
