Influencia del desarrollo psicomotriz en el aprendizaje de la escritura en un caso de disgrafia

Abstract

One of the educational problems that has become more common nowadays is dysgraphia, which is why this research aims to determine the influence of psychomotor development in the learning of writing in a case of dysgraphia. The case study involved the participation of a 7 year old girl located in the Chilla canton in the Province of El Oro, to whom the following instruments were applied: The Cumanes test which indicated a low level of audio visual writing, the Bender test which revealed that the girl had a visual-motor development of 5 years with a chronological age of 7 years, and the registration sheets of the book “Psychomotor skills and educational intervention” which indicated a low psychomotor development. In addition to this, the interview and the observation sheet were applied, which allowed us to consolidate the results obtained with regard to the influence of psychomotor skills and dysgraphia. It was concluded that there is indeed an influence of psychomotor development on the learning of writing, because the child’s lack of proper psychomotor development results in writing that isn’t very legible. This is due to poor coordination of the hand muscles, also known as fine psychomotor skills, which causes instability when grasping the pencil or pen.