It comes from the word of Greek origin '' Grafía '' which means to write, and from the word '' Dis '' which means difficulty. Dysorthography, also known as dyslexic dysgraphia, is a disorder that mainly affects a person's writing, it can lead to a person having bad spelling, bad handwriting and even not being able to put their thoughts into writing. This concept can also be analyzed in two contexts, the neurological (When the context is caused by a deficit) and the functional (When the disorder does not react to brain injuries).
These problems according to studies can be caused by: Optical difficulties: These are problems interpreting what the eyes see.
Difficulties in processing language: These are problems in processing what the person hears.
In some patients with dysgraphia, it is possible to perfectly differentiate the sounds and interpret them orally, but at the time of writing them there is a problem due to the deficiency, the child in this case takes the pencil improperly, takes an incorrect posture to write, things who write are undifferentiated and also present a certain slowness to write.
The classification of this disorder is as follows:
Lexical Dysgraphia: It affects the spelling of the person, his writing is characterized by the high number of spelling errors.
Dyslexic Dysgraphia: It is characterized by errors in written language, such as separations, omissions or improper substitutions in words.
Evolutionary Dysgraphia: His handwriting is faulty.
Motor Dysgraphia: Affects writing at the level of perception. The graphics is altered in terms of shape, size and space between one word from another. It is a disorder that can be treated with corrective therapy, this includes exercises such as completing words or phrases, drawings, underlining words, among many other activities.
