What is dysgraphia?

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Dysgraphia is a medical condition where in a person is having difficulty with handwriting.  This disability typically occurs along with other conditions such as dyslexia or reading difficulty and other developmental disorder s.  Some people diagnosed to have disgraphia are able to write at a normal pace but the words and letters are often scrambled or unreadable.  There are dysgraphia cases wherein patients lack the fine motor skills of effective and normal writing.  These patients may be able to write the correct text or word but may take a long time doing so. Others meanwhile have very stiff hand muscles and this will result to inconsistencies in their writing. Some letters and words are so small while others are way bigger than the other letters or characters in a sentence.  Patients with dysgraphia are also known to have problems with coherence. This simply means that dysgraphia not only involves muscle or motor disability but it also often involves problems in terms of mental processing of words and letters.

For the motor type of dysgraphia, patients often have cramps in their fingers and hands during writing.  With problems involving the muscles, letters are typically uneven in terms of size.  Lower case letters are often mixed with upper case letters in a disorganized fashion. Other dysgraphia patients tend to be more of the spatial type wherein their writing is illegible. People with spatial dysgraphia are not able to properly calculate spaces between letters, words, and/or characters.  With this deficiency, spatial dysgraphia patients will also face problems with drawing.  Other common symptoms of dysgraphia include excessive erasures in writing, very slow or laborious writing, reliance on verbal or visual cues, and the inability to use writing guides such as margins and lines.

Early detection is considered essential to the treatment of dysgraphia.  Motor skills are typically practiced and/or challenged to improve the legibility of the handwriting.  Special exercises may also be done on a regular basis to help patients improve space recognition, spelling, and comprehension.

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