HPCSA registered professionals – optometrists, audiologists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, psychologists and psychometrists – are allowed to register for this training and offer assessment services once successfully completed. An internship must be completed in order to fully register as an SGDA Dysgraphia Specialist.
Registration Fee: R4850.00 per delegate
CPD Points: 30
Duration: 20 hours
After registration, you will only have access for 6 weeks to the 12 training modules – during which you have to watch all the presentations and complete the different quizzes.
Want to register as a SG™DA professional and assess children for dysgraphia?
- Complete online training course
- Purchase a dysgraphia assessment kit
- Complete 1 practical internship
- Receive your registration
Important Information & Course Outline
Dysgraphia is a neurological (brain-based) and often hereditary transcription disability, meaning that it is a writing disorder associated with impaired handwriting, orthographic coding, and finger sequencing (the movement of muscles required to write).
The causes, signs, and prevalence of dysgraphia, as well as strategies and accommodations that can support individuals with dysgraphia.
Additionally, the course will cover how to administer the Stark Griffin™ Dysgraphia Assessment and lay out what tools and interventions that you, as the professional, can use and implement to effectively support individuals with dysgraphia and improve their writing skills. By the end of the course, participants will have a comprehensive understanding of dysgraphia and be better equipped to create and implement effective interventions for individuals with this learning disability.
- 1. What is Dysgraphia?
- 2. Etiology of Dysgraphia
- 3. Signs of Dysgraphia
- 4. Skills Required, Skills Affected and Physical Factors
- 5. Comorbid Learning Disorders in Dysgraphia
- 6. Psychological Processing of Writing
- 7. Neuroanatomical Model of Writing and Dysgraphia
- 8. Types of Dysgraphia
- 9. Diagnosis of Dysgraphia
- 10. Diagnosis of Dysgraphia - Case Study
- 11. Administering the Stark-Griffin™ Dysgraphia Assessment
- 12. Dysgraphia Therapy
- 13. Strategies to Achieve Success
- Stark Griffin Dyslexia Academy
- Red Apple Dyslexia Association
- What is dysgraphia?
- Prevalence of Dysgraphia
- Causes
Orthographic coding
Planning sequential finger movements
- Linguistic Stage
- Motor Stage
Motor-Expressive-Praxic Stage
- Signs
Signs of dysgraphia in Preschool
Signs of dysgraphia in Primary School
Signs of dysgraphia in High School - Symptoms
Visual-spatial
Fine motor
Language processing
Spelling/handwriting
Grammar and usage problems
Organisation of language - Myths
- Pre-Writing Skills
- Perceptual Skills
Perceptual abilities
Visual discrimination
Visual memory
Visual sequencing
Visual motor co-ordination
Gross motor skills
Fine motor skills - Skills affected
Academic
Basic life skills
Social emotional - Physical factors
Furniture
Lighting
Anxiety level
Posture
Position of paper for right and left-handed
Pencil grip
Right and left-handed learner
- Comorbid learning disorders
Dyslexia
Language disorders
ADHD
Dyspraxia - Dyslexia vs Dysgraphia
- Brain differences
- Frontal lobe
- Hippocampus
- Broca’s Area
- Wernicke’s Area
- Visual Cortex vs Speech Area
- Motor Area
- Caudate Nucleus
- Neurology
Exner’s writing area - Hemispheres
- Brain Lobes
Frontal lobe
Parietal lobe
Occipital lobe - Core Neural Network
Exner’s Area
Left superior parietal cortex
Right cerebellum
Central Sulcus
Left Fusiform Gyrus - Affected Brain Areas
Dyslexia dysgraphia
Motor dysgraphia
Spatial dysgraphia
- Dyslexia dysgraphia
- Motor dysgraphia
- Spatial dysgraphia
- Gross Motor
- Fine Motor
- Visual Perceptual
- Writing
- FTT
- Drawing
- Copying
- Free-Hand Coping
- Spelling
- Colouring
- Memory
- Writing Speed
- Case Study
- Case Study
- Quiz
- Assessment
- Internship
- Primary School
- High School
- Early Writers
- Young Writers
- Teens & Adults
- Classroom Accommodations
