| Pre-school children |
An awkward grip or body position when writing |
| Tire easily with writing |
| Avoidance of writing and drawing tasks |
| Written letters are poorly formed, inversed, reversed, or inconsistently spaced |
| Difficulty staying within margins |
| The school-aged child |
Illegible handwriting |
| Switching between cursive and print |
| Difficulty with word-finding, sentence completion, and written comprehension |
| The teenager and young adult |
Difficulty with written organization of thought |
| Difficulty with written syntax and written grammar that is not duplicated with oral tasks |