Dysgraphia: A Comprehensive Review of Interventions Targeting Impaired Cognitive Mechanisms

Recently, there has been a growing interest in inquiries about dysgraphia, the impairment in writing. Existing research inquiries into dysgraphia often overlook the underlying cognitive impairment and focus on generalized approaches to improve impaired writing skills. Little attention has been paid to interventions targeting the specific cognitive mechanisms to improve dysgraphia. In order to fill this gap, this review attempts to provide a comprehensive account of the varied intervention strategies that directly and indirectly target improving the cognitive mechanisms of writing and, thereby, dysgraphia. As a background to the review, the multiple cognitive writing processes, their disruption, and the corresponding deficit profile of dysgraphia are also discussed.