Index finger and wrist movement training is basic to learning by children with Dysgraphia

Reading, writing and arithmetic are considered to be three basic literacy-cum-numeracy skills and processes to promote thinking or development of their cognitive skills.

Since dysgraphia is a writing disorder due to lack of neurological processing function of people involved with grasping writing utensils and sequencing of fine motor movements, therefore, emphasis should be on listening, speaking, reading of language including language of mathematics.

Even in reading, dysgrahic children needed to be helped through specially designed interventions in the form of compensations and remediation intervention.

The compensation interventions require movement of pointing finger, wrist movement and eye movement. Furthermore, it has been observed that even due to neurological nature of the problem, the writing process is either illegibly too slow or two fast along with being painful for fine motor muscles of the hand.

the compensatory interventions helpful in reading process should be movement of index finger in two ways

1. Movement of index finger from left to write and from up and down before other movements

o Continuous movements of the following two type
o Movement in air, in water and in sand

 2. Drag on different hard surfaces both flat (such as slate) and grooved

- Short movements of index finger with start-and-stop commands by the 
   child as self-talk 
 -Tracing exercises for shapes and symbols

Here, in the picture and GIF, a dysgraphic child is learning to grasp the shapes and names of two letters with broken lines since he moves hand too fast and insistence of writing with a pencil had a negative impact of conventional learning. It has been found the compensatory designed intervention reduce the negative impact of imposing the ways of normal children or labeling such children as dull or slow learners.