What are the differences between people who are bad at writing papers and people who have dysgraphia?

dysgraphia is the actual handwriting--not the ability to compose a paper dyslexia is difficulty reading you can be bad at writing papers without having a learning disability---you may just need some tutoring in basic skills and organization dysgraphia does not affect reading comprehension

First of all. . . which one did you want to know about. . . dyslexia or dysgraphia, you keep going back and forth. Dyslexia affects HOW and WHAT a person reads. the whole "flipping" of letters and/or numbers. Dysgraphia affects HOW and WHAT a person writes and their reading comprehension. It's slightly a motor skill thing, in which their handwriting is terrible in and of itself. Their written words tend to not be uniform in height, unusual gaps often between letters within a word, their words often "float" above the lines on the paper, etc. Those with dysgraphia can conceptualize things and know what is required of them to write a paper, essay, letter, etc. But once they put together the actual physical aspect of writing along with piecing the structure of language, they can easily get a bit lost. Typing, instead of writing, actually helps them a great deal, so long as they know where all the keys are. I wouldn't trust most teachers' "assessments" in regards to dysgraphia, nor any other "label".

First of all. . . which one did you want to know about. . . dyslexia or dysgraphia, you keep going back and forth. Dyslexia affects HOW and WHAT a person reads. the whole "flipping" of letters and/or numbers. Dysgraphia affects HOW and WHAT a person writes and their reading comprehension. It's slightly a motor skill thing, in which their handwriting is terrible in and of itself. Their written words tend to not be uniform in height, unusual gaps often between letters within a word, their words often "float" above the lines on the paper, etc. Those with dysgraphia can conceptualize things and know what is required of them to write a paper, essay, letter, etc. But once they put together the actual physical aspect of writing along with piecing the structure of language, they can easily get a bit lost. Typing, instead of writing, actually helps them a great deal, so long as they know where all the keys are. I wouldn't trust most teachers' "assessments" in regards to dysgraphia, nor any other "label".