Dysgraphia: What it is and how to help - Jill Stowell

*In this episode, Jill Stowell explores the challenge of dysgraphia*
✅ What's behind the terrible spelling and handwriting?
✅ Experience what it feels like to be dysgraphic.
✅ Learn tools to help your dysgraphic child and what treatment to eliminate the struggles looks like.

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02:42 What does dysgraphia look like?
04:33 Common characteristics of a child with dysgraphia
06:00 A dysgraphia experiment with the audience
07:39 How dysgraphia training is done at Stowell Learning Center
08:59 Exercises that can help your child
15:05 Handwriting Without Tears paper explained
15:48 Why handwriting is so important
19:45 Question: How old is too old to work on handwriting?
22:42 Question: At what point should I tell the school to allow accommodations for my child’s handwriting?
24:53 Question: Issues with holding a pencil
25:40 Question: How often should we practice the technique that was shown?
26:50 Question: Where can I go to get my child tested for dysgraphia?
28:30 Question: Where can I get my child tested for dyslexia?
29:47 Question: My child is high functioning autism, and is struggling with reading comprehension
30:25 Question: My child has great penmanship, but he has a difficult time putting thoughts onto paper and getting started. Is this dysgraphia?
36:39 The challenge of organizing the ideas on paper quickly for kids with dysgraphia
37:58 5 minutes power writing
40:16 Demonstration of this technique
45:34 Speech and language delays- how power writing can help with these kids
47:17 Question: Is a written expression disorder the same as dysgraphia?
47:58 Question: How to help to translate thoughts into writing once the fine motor skills are fine tuned?
48:32 Question: Do kids with auditory processing issues have writing issues as well?
49:55 Question: Can fine motor problems be connected to dysgraphia or are they a separate issue?
51:28 Comment- How dyslexia and dysgraphia is handled in schools- the alphabet no longer being in the classroom
53:06 Question: Can dyslexia and APD look like the same thing?
1:01:02 When you can identify the underlying skills that are not working properly, you can help the higher level issues
1:01:47 Next week’s show

#LDExpert #dysgraphia

[LDExpert]

Parents - How does your child feel about writing? They they love it or hate it?

[hvitulv]

Thanks! The under-researched information is the effects on memory, brushing teeth, holding scissors, and the connection with basilar migraines. All of these things are connected to the same area of the brain, the basilar nerve damage. Basilar nerve damage can be linked to dysgraphia, particularly when it affects the brain areas that control motor skills and writing. Basilar nerve damage can potentially lead to long-term memory loss. This is because damage to the basilar artery (which supplies blood to crucial parts of the brain involved in memory) or structures it serves, like the brainstem and medial temporal lobes, can disrupt neural networks essential for memory formation and retrieval. We truly need more people reporting and researching these connections so that their symptoms are not ignored.

[ranjeetha]

I have revisted this video so many times. Thankyou dor the wonderful service - people from all over the world are using this.

[SpatchG]

I cannot express how helpful this is. My daughter has dysgraphia and I have been at a loss as to how to help her with practical exercises. Thank you SO much!

[carolpapin]

Carol Lee from Edmond, OK...enjoying your information.

[RakiyaMohammed-bfps]

9.22am, 03/03/2025 Nigeria. Thank you so much for this education. A mom shared this video with me. Her 5 year old son has similar difficulties and so she has been invited to school several times over her sons' inability to express himself on paper. He is described as being very slow. This is affecting the boy and most times he doesn't want to go to school because he is put on the 'spot'.

[kellindalton]

How do I get a remote session for testing for dysgraphia? My 8 year old diagnosed with dyslexia and adhd but not any deeper than that.

[smartcaring]

How fast can this training take to meet up for a grade five learner