It is also referred to as problem of visual-motor integration. The handwritings of dyslexics are often poor and illegible. Following are the signs of dysgraphia:-

1.  Abnormal grip on the pencil – usually with the thumb on top of the fingers akin to a fist-grip.

2.  Young dyslexics often place their heads on the desk to watch the edge of the pencil while writing.

3.  The fingers of the child get cramps because they hold on to the pencil too tightly. This causes them to often put down the pencil and flex their fingers and hands.

4.  Their writing is not smooth and flowing but an exhausting task that is not spontaneous.

5.  The beginning and closing points of the letters are unusual.

6.  It is with great difficulty that the child manages to place letters and words correctly on the horizontal lines.

7.  For them copying from the board is a painful, slow and boring task. The dyslexic child repeatedly looks up and sort of visually tries to grab a letter or two at a time. Repeatedly they sub-vocalize the letter names and then stare severely at the paper on which they are writing while writing these. This is repeatedly done again and again. While copying the child loses the original place on the paper, makes spelling mistakes even while copying and fails to put down the proper capital letters and punctuation marks; this despite the fact that the child could read the writing on the board.

8.  The writing is spread out on the page in a haphazard manner with words either spread out or tightly spaced. Margins are more often than not forgotten.

9.  The dyslexic child has great difficulty in managing cursive writing. Chronic confusion shows up with similar looking letters getting jumbled up. Writing capital letters in cursive too proves to be a challenge.

Quality of Written Work:

It can be said that dyslexics produce impoverished written work. It means there is a wide gap between what they say verbally and what they pen down. Consequently the following lapses are noticed:-

1.  As far as possible they avoid writing.

2.  They cram down everything in one lengthy sentence.

3.  They fail to understand that a sentence must start with a capital letter and close with a punctuation mark.

4.  They do not know the difference between a complete sentence and a phrase or part of it.

5.  Dyslexics misspell words frequently – even if the words are simple and comprise of one syllable that should not cause them to falter.

6.  They take too long a time to write because of the problem of dysgraphia.

7.  Their handwriting can hardly be read due to the same reason.

8.  They cannot manage the space between words while margins are totally ignored. The sentences are often squeezed into one side of the page instead of being evenly spaced out.

9.  They fail to note their errors while revising. They read backwards what they wanted to articulate but not what they have actually penned down.