Managing Pupils with Dysgraphia in Early Child Numeracy
Dysgraphia is a specific learning difficulty which is a brain-based disorder that impacts on writing skills whereby affected individuals have difficulty with forming letters, writing figures, spacing words and even organizing text into complete sentences. Early child numeracy is a competence built in the young child at an early childhood stage in the mathematical skills needed to cope with everyday life and an understanding of information presented mathematically. To this end, this paper presents dysgraphia, its symptoms in pupils, offers measures on how to manage dysgraphia pupils by teachers and parents and highlights strong recommendations to assist such pupils in performing and competing favourably in Mathematics and other subjects with other pupils in the classroom. Keywords: Dysgraphia, Early Child Numeracy (ECN), Mathematics, Pupils, Numerophobia.