The second type is motor dysgraphia. This is caused by poor fine motor skills. In this type, they will have sloppy handwriting and they will also be sloppy when copying or drawing but generally will not have trouble in spelling. If they slow down and give extreme effort they can be neater in their work but this takes so much effort that it detracts from other processing. Such as processing what the teacher is saying while taking notes. So can cause other learning difficulties
In this type, you may notice that your child has difficulty with pencil grip. They may grab it too high or too low or in an unusual way. They may squeeze too hard. They may orient their body in a strange way to adjust to the grip and their hand will likely fatigue quickly when writing. And because they are working so hard in general, they may fatigue quickly so they may not be able to finish tasks well.
They may also rip the paper when writing and generally will erase a lot.
Spatial Dysgraphia
Thirdly there is spatial dysgraphia. This is caused by poor visual-spatial skills. In this type, they may have trouble staying between the lines on writing paper. They may have difficulty with keeping even spacing between letters and between words. They may have trouble with visual discrimination which will cause them to have difficulty telling the difference between some letters and some numbers. They may even have difficulty discriminating between certain shapes.
In this type, letters may overlap and it may be difficult to tell where one word ends and another begins. They may indiscriminately mix upper and lower case letters.