What you need to know about supporting students with dysgraphia
Students with handwriting challenges find it difficult to complete written schoolwork. Whether students have been diagnosed with dysgraphia or not, struggling writers may experience a range of challenges including:
- Poor spelling and grammar
- Difficulty with composition
- Illegible handwriting
- Depending on adults to scribe
Kati McIlroy, an Occupational Therapist and the parent of a student with dysgraphia, shares five strategies to help students overcome writing barriers, including:
- Accommodations
- Modifications
- When to introduce keyboarding
- Paper modifications
- Low tech tools
You’ll also see the latest instructional supports in Co:Writer® and Snap&Read that build writing fluency, independence, and confidence in your students—from word prediction, ELL language and translation support, and voice typing/speech recognition.