ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the different approaches teachers and parents can take to remediating dysgraphia difficulties depending upon the origin of the problem. It offers more general advice on helping those with dysgraphia work through writing difficulties. General advice for those with dyslexic dysgraphia centers on remediating reading difficulties as a primary focus and helping to alleviate writing anxiety and stress, which is sometimes even manifested in holding a pencil or pen, as a side undertaking. In contrast, by definition, those with motor or spatial dysgraphia alone are adequate oral spellers. Another group of suggestions for those with dysgraphia centers on fine motor coordination exercises and hand strengthening. Many websites also recommend that children with dysgraphia get some training in how the right and left hands work together and interact in accomplishing tasks, also known as bilateral integration. Technology is improving all the time, and this is excellent news for those with dysgraphia.
