Dysorthographia

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Dysorthographia is a disorder of learning characterized by an important and durable defect of assimilation of grammatical rules (deterioration of the spontaneous writing or under dictation).

Symptoms of dysorthographia in varied proportions:

• A slowness , hesitations and a poverty of the writing
• Grammar, conjugation, spelling mistakes
• Difficulties with writing similar to the dyslexic
• Copy errors and arbitrary cuts of words
• Savings in syllables, omissions and merged words

This disorder often follows upon a dyslexia but this is not systematic. It can be developmental(congenital) or acquired (following a lesion of the nervous system), in this last case the term agraphia is often used.