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ABSTRACT
This research work is an evaluation of a communicative disorder known as “Agraphia”. It is concerned with observing the pupils of “Ugbowo housing estate prmary school” between ages of 8 and 13 (as this is the best age to diagnose Agraphia) to decipher if the communicative disorder is present and how it manifests. Data were collected using rewritable models (not questionnaires per say), which are printed writings for the children to rewrite what they can see. This was made in order for us to identify and analyze the symptoms in their writings and also watch their posture while they write. This process helps us filter out the children who only possess insignificant symptoms or just have bad handwriting which couldn’t be diagnosed as the presence of Agraphia. We also, orally interviewed the selected pupils to know if they had any other form of speech defect. We analyzed the data using certain symptoms; omission, transposition etc. we picked out the symptoms from each child’s data which we then used to decipher if Agraphia is present or not. This work was purely descriptive and holds on to no theoretical framework. It describes the situation as it is present with Agraphic children. After identifying the children with Agraphia, we went ahead to identify the types and sub-types of Agraphia present in each child, the parts of their brain affected, if it occurs alone (pure Agraphia) or it co-occurs with other neuro-biological conditions like Alexia, aphasia, dyslexia etc. Then at the end of the work, we stated how the condition affects their learning and how it can be managed by all parties concerned, which include the patients, the parents and the teachers in school.
