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 |