Some kids with mild dysgraphia struggle with fine motors skills and the physical act of writing. Special educator, parents / care-givers and researcher with insights in occupational therapy can significantly help the child through guided and assisted learning by creating worksheets for learning alphabet and acquiring basic literacy skills.
"Mild dysgraphia is a neurological disorder that impairs writing ability to some extent and fine motor skills. Through the child finds writing a bit painful with shaky hands and leads to bad handwriting and spelling mistakes. However with persistent efforts, patience and designed intervention all aspects of the writing skill, including spelling, legibility, word spacing and sizing can be improved with joint efforts of the school and caregivers," holds Dr Lalit Kishore of Disha in Jaipur wherein the participatory intervention was carried out involving the teacher and the care-giver. It had good outcomes and eventual mainstreaming.
With adaptation of the writing utensil, the team of service providers can improve the hand strength and fine motor coordination needed to type and write by hand.
Attending to tripod grasp, arm position and body posture during assited writing of alphabet through designed workhsheets can gradually help a child with mild dysgraphia to improve writing skills and write legibally.
The inset pictures showa well-educated parent, volunteer teacher in the room of researcher who is more of education therapist, preparing the worksheets along with getting trained in the strategies to help the child both in school and at home leading to inclusion.
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