How To Treat Dysgraphia

How To Treat It At Home

Parents can take steps early to help a child with dysgraphia succeed. Adopting a relaxed approach to writing and not pressuring the child to 'practice more' or 'try harder' can decrease anxiety related to writing. Parents can invest in a good children's typing program online and help their son or daughter find an alternative to handwriting. When your child is doing handwritten assignments, monitor their hand position in gripping the pencil or pen. Buy pencils with grips to facilitate proper finger placement. It might be helpful to coach your child in saying each word as he writes, as the auditory input makes connections in the brain that will help build letter-forming memory. Dysgraphia presents many challenges, and in considering how to treat it at home, you might offer to help by serving as a scribe to your child. Let her dictate a sentence and you write it. She will write the second sentence, dictate the third one for you, and so on. This gives your child an opportunity to strengthen thought processes and think about what they want to write next. The actual writing can then be done with less anxiety.

Learn about treatments for dysgraphia in a school setting next.