![]() ![]() Does dysgraphia occur alone or with other specific learning disabilities?Ĭhildren with impaired handwriting may also have attention-deficit disorder (ADHD)–inattentive, hyperactive, or combined inattentive and hyperactive subtypes. Children with dysgraphia may have difficulty with both orthographic coding and planning sequential finger movements. Children with dysgraphia do not have primary developmental motor disorder, another cause of poor handwriting, but may have difficulty planning sequential finger movements such as the touching of the thumb to successive fingers on the same hand without visual feedback. Orthographic coding refers to the ability to store written words in working memory while the letters in the word are analyzed or the ability to create permanent memory of written words linked to their pronunciation and meaning. Research to date has shown orthographic coding in working memory is related to handwriting and is often impaired in dysgraphia. Children with dysgraphia may have only impaired handwriting, only impaired spelling (without reading problems), or both impaired handwriting and impaired spelling. Impaired handwriting can interfere with learning to spell words in writing and speed of writing text. Thus, dysgraphia is the condition of impaired letter writing by hand, that is, disabled handwriting. ![]() The suffix ia refers to having a condition. Graph refers to producing letter forms by hand. The prefix dys indicates that there is impairment. The base word graph refers both to the hand’s function in writing and to the letters formed by the hand. What is dysgraphia?ĭysgraphia is a Greek word. For a downloadable PDF in Spanish, click here.
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