Re: Dysgraphia

[Andy Simmons <Simmons@LOGOS.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU>]

[This e-mail is from Kara Provost, who shares an e-mail address with Andy
Simmons]

This is purely anecdotal and unscientific, but I've noticed that a number
of my students who have self-identified as having a learning disability
also have absolutely horrendous handwriting, which could suggest a
neurological connection.

  I also had some dyslexic tendencies myself as a child (which no longer
trouble me due to early intervention), and also had hand/eye coordination
problems, which included bad handwriting.  I specifically remmeber having
trouble writing straight across the page (my words tended to slant up or
down) and forgetting to leave spaces between words or sentences.

--Kara Provost
Writing Center Director
Montserrat College of Art

>Hi folks,
>
>Dysgraphia-that totally untidy and (almost) UN-readable writing--that scrawl,
>often mistaken for hieroglyphics, that can be deciphered by the writer
>alone!
>
>How have you found this problem to affect writing skills and abilities in
>adult
>writers (i.e. at college level & beyond) ?  What remedies have been used?  And
>what results?
>
>I would find it very interesting to see whether there is any connection with
>hand motor-skills and neurological development.  Have any of you found that
>dysgraphia actually impairs a writer from producing both logical thought and
>organized essay format.
>
>Comments would be appreciated.
>
>
>Dr. Robert Boehm
>Teaching Learning Center
>Loma Linda University,  Ca
>Rboehm@ccmail.llu.edu
>(909)  558-8625


Andy Simmons/Kara Provost
MB 1882 Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02254
(781) 736-5752