What is dysgraphia and how does it affect children? - General education

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Dysgraphia is a difficulty in writing and as an important factor writing is a skill that is learned, and therefore requires a deployment that involves multiple processes, which encompass cognitive processes and itself in the knowledge of the world.

The writing requires mental representations and a coordination of graphomotor skills, and it has to do with eye-hand coordination, and even with fine motor coordination.

The writing in turn needs the organization of thought in order to be transformed into ideas, which will end up graphically on a sheet. That is to say that the coordination and organization of cognitive and linguistic operations are always needed, since these must have a transformation in order to be reflected at a graphic and motor level.

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What does dysgraphia involve in the process of development and learning?

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As children grow, they learn and construct mental representations; The mental representation has to do with the experience itself.

The mental representations may or may not be concrete, they may also be of complex and abstract things, not necessarily something tangible. That is, when you want to write you must have well-organized ideas and mental representations.

Ideas must be organized with linguistic components, in the grammar of our spoken language, so that it adapts to a completely motor skill and helps to make fine movements, to translate the idea that cognitively has.

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Influence of dysgraphia as difficulty in writing

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Dysgraphia can be presented in three different ways, they are not necessarily presented alone, that is, they can be combined, for example:

• Problems in itself, of the written word. You can delete letters, delete fragments of the word or sentence, that is, you can not fully understand everything that has been written.

• Composition and planning of ideas. It is more noticeable in adults than in children, especially when there are events related to some trauma. Therefore, it is the affectation that causes damage to the brain area and causes different disorders. In the composition of the ideas that the person wishes to transmit on a sheet are not coherent, therefore, missing: texts, words that are incomplete, you can also write an idea and have no relationship to the following in context.

• Difficulties at motor level. These problems are of a level of perception, is the most common in children who are acquiring literacy. That is, this includes incomplete graphics, loss of space, increased graphics and diminished graphics, this is what is typically seen in children in the process of reading and writing.

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How to detect dysgraphia?

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Generally it is the teachers or representatives who detect poor writing quality, so it is important to focus on the difference in size when the letter is not legible.

It is necessary to look at all the elements that may be affecting the writing process, such as:

• The composition.

• The idea.

• Writing.

• Verify that the word has all its components.

It is necessary to bear in mind that they are not replacing or omitting components in the correct writing. It is important to make an assessment to check if the child has any deficiency, because writing is a skill that is acquired when practiced.

Greetings educators and motivators of education; Writing is a very complex skill, and of course as in all the skills that are put into practice they can present some difficulty, but it is part of the learning process.

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