“When you work for a dysgraphic child in an ‘experiential action learning’ way, you come out with the interventions that can help the child to develop in physical, cognitive, social and emotional dimensions. In fact, a dysgraphic child teaches the educator how to make him or her learn by being a designer, inventor and therapist through modification, adaptation, improvisation and experimentation skills,” says educator-researcher Dr Lalit Kishore working with differently abled children at Disha in Jaipur.
He has has carried out a three-month long clinical study on a dysgraphic child and come out with following recommendations.
1 Modification in writing utensil by attaching it to discarded whitener or stick file fastener and adaptation of slate with distemper paint
2. Improving the wrap-grasp of the child for assistive writing to get the shapes and structures of alphabet and numerals experimentally and brain-fully
3. Improving pointing out gesture and finger touch tracing of alphabet
4. Hands-on activities with paper folding
5. Finger tapping exercises and movement therapy with finger-walking puppets
6. Swiss massage and aquatics therapy of fingers
The work the child in clinical setting has been depicted in the following two collages
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