fMRI of Dysgraphia – Lack of Automaticity and Need for Visual Monitoring

A recent fMRI confirms clinical results that some cildren may be poor writers due to the brain’s reduced cerebella activation in the primary sensory area. The brain-based study concludes that the brains of the children in this category were highly active in a visual area rather than sensory. As a result, their memory/processing speeds are stymied, causing their handwriting to suffer to some noteable degree.