Assistive Technology for Dysgraphia and Writing Disabilities
Your Child’s Key to Great Writing: Assistive Technology for Dysgraphia and Writing Disabilities
What if your child has GREAT ideas to share, but he has dysgraphia? When a child has trouble with writing, it is hard to write his ideas down. SO, assistive technology for dysgraphia and writing disabilities can help your child show what he knows in writing.
A lot of kids with dysgraphia write simple, short sentences because it’s hard for them to form their ideas for writing. Additionally, the child often has handwriting issues.
Hence, all of these issues make your child’s writing difficult to read and understand. When there are letter spacing problems, spelling difficulties, and details are left out of the story, it’s a problem. As a result, your child doesn’t seem nearly as smart on paper as you KNOW he really is!
Therefore, it’ll help you to check out the assistive technology you can use for dysgraphia and writing disabilities problems. These tools will help you, because there is help for your child’s handwriting AND written expression issues.
As another idea, you can also help your child overcome his writing problems. Truly, you may find the page about overcoming dysgraphia on the LearningAbledKids website of help to you.
Lastly, if your child has other learning problems too, check out the page about assistive technology for reading, math, and executive functioning (ADHD) on this site for more help.
Above all else, think about getting the tools that seem like they can really help your child. Anything you can do to make writing easier for your child is well worth doing!
As you can see, I’ve listed high, medium, and low tech assistive technology options. See what treasures you can find among the tools listed below.
High-Tech Assistive Technology for Dysgraphia and Writing Disabilities
Dictation Software (speech-to-text)
Word prediction (this is an option you can turn on in many word processors and on your computer.)
Talking Word Processors (Talk Typer)
Onscreen keyboard (touchpad)
Portable word processor
Idea Mapping Software (Inspiration, Kidspiration, XMind)
Writing Tablets with Writing Apps
Proofreading programs
Abbreviation Expansion
Mid-Tech Assistive Technology for Dysgraphia and Writing Disabilities
Digital Recorders for Oral/Dictated Responses
Electronic Dictionaries
Dictation Headset
Electronic Thesaurus
Low Tech Assistive Technology for Dysgraphia and Writing Disabilities
Pencil Grips
Adaptive Grip Pens and Pencils
Wide-lined paper
Raised-line paper
Graphic Organizers
Composition Templates
Lettering Stencils
Writing Guide
Preprinted words or phrases for sentence construction
Words Cards
Word Banks (Word Rings, Word books)
Word Wall (posters)
Dictionary
Thesaurus
High Contrast Pen and Paper (Brightlines Paper)
Slant Board / Lap Board
Word Spacer
White Board
Page Holders
Correction Tape