Symptoms
Symptoms include a mixture of upper and lower case letters, irregular letter sizes & shapes, unfinished letters, struggling to use writing as a communication tool, a decreased speed of writing & copying, talking to self while writing & general illegibility.
In Depth List
Cramped fingers while writing
Odd wrist, body & paper positions
Excessive Erasing
Mixture of upper & lower case letters
Mixture of printer & cursive letters
Inconsistent Letter Formations
Misuse of line and margin
Poor organization of page
Insufficient speed while copying
General Illegibility
Decreased speed of writing & copying
Needing verbal cues
Relies on vision-monitor what the hand is doing while writing
Implements verbal directions involving sequencing & planning slowly
Disorders & Disabilities
- ADHD
- Agoraphobia
- Angelman Syndrome
- Asperger Syndrome
- Autism
- Bipolar Disorder
- Blindness
- Cerebral Palsy
- Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
- Cluttering
- Conduct Disorder
- Deafblindness
- Deafness
- Depression
- Development Delay
- Developmental Language Learning Impairments
- Down Syndrome
- Dyscalculia
- Dysgraphia
- Dyslexia
- Dysphasia
- Dyspraxia
- Expressive Language Disorder
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Hyperlexia
- Language Delay
- Lisp
- Mitochondrial Disease
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Oppositional defiant disorder
- P.A.N.D.A.S.
- Rett Syndrome
- Selective Mutism
- Sensory Integration Dysfunction
- Serious Emotional Disturbance
- Social Anxiety
- Stereotypic Movement Disorder
- Stuttering
- Tourette Syndrome (TS)
- Usher Syndrome
- Williams Syndrome






