Questão 10 - IDOMED Unificado Medicina - Online 2025/1

Dysorthography: Is it a Real Disorder?

 

(1^st §) Some people use the term Dysorthography to refer to a dysgraphic disorder related to dyslexia. It features significant spelling mistakes while writing, and such errors can include confusions, omissions or inversions of letters and syllables, remarkably flawed conjugation, and arbitrary word breaks.

(2^nd §) Experts are still trying to pinpoint what may predispose children to develop Dysorthography. Under normal circumstances, the brain processes the information it receives through senses and stores it for later use. When kids start writing, their brains retrieve information from the short-term and long-term memory to express what they’re thinking through writing characters. In the case of children suffering from Dysgraphia, some researchers think organizing information stored in the brain or getting words onto paper by writing or typing the characters, or both of these steps in the process of writing, go off track. But there is some debate as if Dysorthography is a real mental disorder or a pedagogical issue. Those who argue in favor of conceptualizing Dysorthography as a learning disability cite Dysgraphia and Dyslexia as actual disorders related to the inability to write correctly.

(3^rd §) These people argue that nowadays children learn and adapt to this technological age a lot faster than most adults, so several experts are quick to point out the possibility of this being the result of recent changes in the way children are learning their language. Technology is a double-edged sword. It can make life and work easier, but using it in excess is making children lose their motor skills, body awareness, and skills of self-correction in writing. In fact, computers and most smartphones are capable of autocorrecting words, eliminating the need of putting an effort in our orthography.

(4^th §) While this “condition” is still a matter of debate, dyslexia and dysgraphia are still issues that people need to deal with within our current generation. That is why those who have children who display any of the usual signs of dysgraphia must seek help from professionals in the fields of mental disorders and learning disabilities.

Adapted from: https://hoool.com/dysorthography/. Accessed September 4 2024

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