The Right to Writing
The benefits of being literate transcend individuals, families, communities, and nations. Literacy should be a right and not a privilege, which is why we decided to focus on the "right to write" this month. We have put together a few exercises and tools that you can introduce at home to assist your child in those early steps into their educational career.
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Help for Handwriting Problems
A handwriting problem exists when a learner writes illegibly or extremely slowly. Everyone occasionally produces some illegible letters, but some learners do so frequently enough that understanding what they have written is difficult; at this point, the difficulty would be considered a problem. Learn more about the causes and how a handwriting problem can be overcome.
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TV Documentary, Rivoningo, SABC 2: Dysgraphia
The term dysgraphia was coined from the Greek words "dys" meaning ill or difficult and "graphein" meaning to write, and is used to describe a severe problem with handwriting. Dysgraphia is characterized by the following symptoms: generally illegible writing; letter inconsistencies; mixture of upper/lower case letters...
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