Dysgraphia (“Dys” meaning “difficulty” and “graphia” meaning “writing”) is a neurological disorder seen in many children with fine motor or sensory-motor challenges making their handwriting unintelligible.

1. Types of
Dysgraphia

2. INTRODUCTION
Dysgraphia (“Dys” meaning “difficulty” and “graphia” meaning “writing”) is
a neurological disorder seen in many children with fine motor or
sensory-motor challenges making their handwriting unintelligible.
Dysgraphia can result from any neurological trauma or along with
physical impairments, ADHD, learning disabilities, autism etc. If the child
shows symptoms of dysgraphia when introduced to writing, parents
must consult the best occupational therapist for treatment.

3. Dyslexic Dysgraphia
When the child’s readily written works are
illegible and copied works are fine with
minor spelling mistakes, the condition is
said to be dyslexic dysgraphia. It is not
necessary that a child with dysgraphia
must have dyslexia; they often occur
together, but not certainly.
Motor Dysgraphia
If the handwriting issues are caused by the
deficiency of fine motor skills, poor dexterity, poor
muscle tone etc. it becomes motor dysgraphia.
Written works are illegible, even if copied from
another document. For these children, letter
formation requires extreme effort and
considerable time, at the same time, cannot be
sustained for a longer period of time.
Here are the types of
dysgraphia:

4. Spatial Dysgraphia Phonological Dysgraphia
When children find difficulty in
understanding the space such as
spacing between words, letters and
lines on a sheet of paper, it is called
spatial dysgraphia. These children
write on top of the lines with no
spatial concerns making the written
works extremely hard to understand.
They might not have any spelling
errors or writing speed related issues
but are unable to comprehend the
concept of spacing.
Phonological dysgraphia can be
defined as the writing and spelling
perplexities occurring with the
spelling of unfamiliar words, non-
words, and phonetically irregular
words. Children with phonological
dysgraphia have difficulty in
memorizing phonemes to produce
the right words.

5. Lexical
Dysgraphia
Lexical Dysgraphia is very rare, yet
defined as a condition in which
the child is able to spell words but
hugely relay on standard sound-
to-letter patterns which leads to
the misspelling of words.

6. CONCLUSION
Dysgraphia can be diagnosed and corrected in the best
occupational therapy center in Dubai. Although dysgraphia is
of varying types, it is not necessary to know the correct type
to begin the treatment. Most of the types require the same
techniques and practices to cure the disorder.

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