Background: Dysgraphia means difficulty with handwriting. People having dysgraphia have handwriting that is illegible with irregular and inconsistent letter formations. Others may write legibly, but slowly and/or very small.
Aim of the work: Screening for copying and spelling errors in patients with dyslexic dysgraphia for better strategies of intervention.
Patients and methods: 23 patients with dyslexic dysgraphia with age that ranges from 8 to 10 years, administered "The Modified Arabic Dyslexia screening test", with further detailed assessment of the two subtests assessing the writing tasks, including copying and spelling for detection of the writing errors among this group.
Results: Varieties of writing errors were seen among these patients with dyslexic-dysgraphia errors. In copying task, the most common error to occur among these patients is deletion (21.7%) and the least is morphological error (4.3%). In spelling task, it was found that the most common error to occur among these patients is deletion (87.0%) and the least error is the visual error (4.3%).
Conclusion: Assessment and rehabilitation of writing errors should go hand in hand with assessment and intervention of the reading errors in children with comorbid dyslexia and dysgraphia.