How To Treat Dysgraphia

How To Treat It At School

One of the best things teachers can do to help students with dysgraphia is to decrease the pressure associated with the act of writing. Offering alternatives to handwriting allows the student to focus on what he knows instead of the mechanics of writing. Oral testing allows the student to share verbally and strengthen her use of vocabulary and sentence structure. Dysgraphia causes students to need more time to form letters and words. Even filling in circles like the ones often used on standardized tests requires extra time and effort. Removing time limitations from tests can optimize learning and minimize the student's unease with the physical act of writing. When a student is handwriting notes, essays, or test answers, the teacher can relax the requirement for neatness and give credit for effort and substance in what is written. Another adaptation for the student with dysgraphia would be to scale down their assignments and grade on the quality of learning instead of the quantity of feedback produced by hand.

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