Table 3.
Types of dysgraphia according to percentage of correct answers, number of errors, psycholinguistic effects and types of errors in the TEPPs, and impairment in the Spontaneous Writing and Sentence Copying tasks of the NEUPSILIN-Af.
Cases | Correct answers |
Errors | Main psycholinguistic effects | Types of writing errors | Impairment in supplementary tasks |
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lexical dysgraphia |
LHD2 | 37 | 89 | Regularity and frequency | Letter omission, graphomotor errors, regularization, graphemic paragraphia, spacing between letters | Spontaneous writing and sentence copying |
RHD6 | 49 | 42 | Regularity and frequency | Regularization and graphemic paragraphia | Spontaneous writing | |
Phonological dysgraphia | LHD3 | 44 | 46 | Word length, frequency and lexicality | Neologism, letter substitution, lexicalization, non-answer, semantic paragraphia | – |
LHD5 | 54 | 44 | Word length and lexicality | Letter substitution and omission, neologisms, non-answers, lexicalization | Spontaneous writing and sentence copying | |
Mixed or global dysgraphia | LHD1 | 4 | 227 | Regularity | Graphomotor, tremor, neologism, omission, perseveration, letter substitution, graphemic and verbal paragraphia | Spontaneous writing |
Peripheral dysgraphia | LHD4 | 39 | 61 | Word length and regularity | Mirrored writing, inclined writing, graphemic paragraphia, letter omission, addition and substitution | Spontaneous writing |
LHD: left-hemisphere damage; RHD: right hemisphere damage.