Dysorthography in children

Dear mothers, dysorthography in children falls into the group of specific learning disorders (ASD), this disorder is about learning the rules of spelling.

What is dysorthography in children?

As we have already said, dysorthography in children falls into the group of specific learning disorders, this disorder is transmitted genetically and concerns the difficulty that children have when writing, the dysorthography occurs during the first years of primary school and it is appropriate the help of a specialist to help children.

How and when does dysorthography manifest in children?

Dysorthography in children is a disorder that involves the correctness of writing, it occurs in the first two years of primary school, the symptoms of this disorder are the following: confusion between similar phonemes (fev; ted; bep; ler) the child has difficulty to recognize the letters of the alphabet that resemble each other in the form (b, p), the child finds it difficult when the word represents doubles, the child reverses the sequence of sounds within the word.

The difference between dysgraphia and dysorthography in children.

When we hear about dysgraphia and dysorthography in children we tend to associate the meaning of these two terms, but it is good to clarify that they have totally different characteristics.

Dysgraphia is the difficulty that children have in the executive-motor field, they find it difficult to hold the pencil and to slide the hand correctly on the paper. When we talk about dysorthography in children we refer to the difficulty of children to correctly represent the sounds and words of their own language, therefore it represents the inability to learn spelling.

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