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  • Writer's pictureLalit Kishore

Phonic point-and-say method & dual code material are helpful in learning by children with dysgraphia


Children with dysgraphia - specific learning disability due to neurological disorder- find it extremely hard to get the tripod grasp and it impacts their writing skills adversely. However, no two Children with dysgraphia have the same set of symptoms, even those who learn get the tripod grasp, fine motor problems due to brain-based coordination deficit can cause the language learning difficulties


Though with normal and above normal IQ, such children have difficulty in forming letters due to the following brain-ingrained deficits.


-Shape and structural distortions while drawing or writing
-Spacing of letters in a word 
-Omission of letters in written spelling
-Wrong organisation of words in sentences

Often, even if the grasp is perfected, children with dysgraphia find writing hard hard and painful. They hate homework If pressed on, such children get cramps in hand, excessive sweating and anxiety and hatred for schooling due to poor performance. They hate writing and drawing and even tend to avoid playing with normal children due poor fine motor skills of hands.

The only they learn is through phonic method based micro-learning based echo-speaking (imitation) techniques, visual learning and reinforcement of learned content through assisted board-games, puzzles, singing, puppets,


Even they should be taught the right way to point out and given deep-practice of point and say method or point-out spoken things. Also, once this skill get gets acquire, the learning can use properly the tou-screen computer typing,


The the child, in the inset collage is dysgraphic, but his strength is visual-verbal learning. He could not even point out things properly. He was taught pointing stance and gesture first as an accommodation intervention. Later, he could point out the parts of a modeled drawing.


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