Disortography. When the child has difficulty writing
Disortography is a specific disorder of writing that conditions and hinders the child when writing a text, even when he has no problems reading or even has a good reading comprehension. They are children who commit many spelling mistakes constantly, so much so that sometimes their texts are unintell
Disortography is a specific disorder of writing that conditions and hinders the child when writing a text, even when he has no problems reading or even has a good reading comprehension.
They are children who commit many spelling mistakes constantly, so much so that sometimes their texts are unintelligible. How to detect that the child has this disorder and how to help?
Symptoms of a child with dystortography
- Omit syllables when writing a word: peparate instead of prepare.
- Add more letters or syllables that contain a word: tarata instead of cake.
- Inverts phonemes: folor, instead of flower.
- Substitute some letters for similar ones: m and n, p and q.
- Join words: it is common to leave no spaces between words, for example, with my hands or wings three and a quarter.
- Does not capitalize, despite knowing the rule.
- Do not use punctuation marks: your texts are run, never or almost never add commas or periods. Come - Make mistakes
even copying a text. Treatment for disortography in childhood
It is important to differentiate dystortography from the normal errors of writing that anyone can commit at any given time, it is a constant difficulty to write correctly
. Dis Disortography occurs in children with normal or even above average abilities. They are not children who have neurological disorders, however, if they can have deficiencies in space-time perception, in visual perception, hearing and even perform a poor articulation of phonemes. The diagnosis of the child will be made by a specialist who will also give guidelines to help you overcome this problem, with activities such as:- Habituate the child to the use of the dictionary.
- Teach him / her study techniques to learn the words well, both new and known ones.
- Expand the child's vocabulary and support it at the graphic level, with drawings.
- Encourage the child to write and always review their texts.
- Make a lot of practice and exercisesto correct the faults.
