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. 2014 Jul-Sep;8(3):236–242. doi: 10.1590/S1980-57642014DN83000007

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.