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Dysgraphia In Children
Explained Cleveland Clinic Tradition

By Jim Forgan, Ph.D., Hospital Receives The DNV Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification
is based on standards set forth by the Brain Attack
School Psychologist Coalition and the American Stroke Association, and
Dysgraphia is a type Comprehensive Stroke Center establishes clear metrics to evaluate outcomes.
of writing learning “Achieving this top certification highlights the
di sa bi l i t y t ha t i s Certification Cleveland Clinic Florida Neuroscience Institute’s
recognized by Florida commitment to excellence,” says Amre Nouh, M.D.,
public schools. When Cleveland Clinic Martin Health announced that MBA, FAHA, regional chairman of neurology, Cleveland
a child has dysgraphia Tradition Hospital in Port St. Lucie has received Clinic Florida. “It also demonstrates to the community
writing can be a certification as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by DNV that the hospital is performing at the highest level and
mentally overwhelming, GL Healthcare. able to attract top-level talent.”
physically exhausting, About Cleveland Clinic Martin Health
and time consuming. Cleveland Clinic Martin Health is part of the
It might be dysgraphia if your child does not enjoy Cleveland Clinic’s regional health system in Florida. It
writing and has a negative attitude toward writing. features three hospitals with a total of 521 beds, a free-
Children with dysgraphia are not all the same and standing emergency center, and numerous outpatient
dysgraphia presents in various ways. Some children centers and clinics across Martin and St. Lucie counties
with dysgraphia have messy looking handwriting, on Florida’s east coast. Cleveland Clinic Martin Health
others have an awkward pencil grasp which fatigues offers preventive, primary and acute hospital care, as well
their hand, other children have difficulty quickly as cancer care, a heart center, wellness and rehabilitation
copying from the board to their paper, and some are services, and much more. Cleveland Clinic’s regional
poor spellers. health system in Florida is an integral part of Cleveland
Furthermore, many children with dysgraphia often Clinic in Ohio, where providing outstanding patient care
have great thoughts and can speak more eloquently is based upon the principles of cooperation, compassion
than they write. For example, a recent client’s child and innovation. Physicians at Cleveland Clinic are
had dysgraphia. The boy’s second-grade schoolteacher “This achievement affirms that Cleveland Clinic experts in the treatment of complex conditions that
required weekly homework to write each spelling word Tradition Hospital has met the highest level of are difficult to diagnose. For more information, visit
in a sentence. Dysgraphia impeded his handwriting competence to address the full spectrum of stroke care,” my.clevelandclinic.org/florida. Follow us on Twitter and
and ability to put thoughts onto paper so rather than says Marc Babi, M.D., chief of Neurocritical Care, Facebook.
elaborate sentences, he wrote very simple sentences. Cleveland Clinic Florida Region and co-director of the About DNV GL Healthcare
For the word, “supper” he wrote, “I eat supper.” This Comprehensive Stroke Center at Tradition Hospital. “It DNV is a global independent certification, assurance
simple sentence pattern repeated for words such as reflects the extensive training and collaboration of our and risk management provider, operating in more
“color” and “inside” with sentences such as “I like to multidisciplinary teams in order to perform effectively than 100 countries. Through its broad experience and
color.” and “I go inside.” and efficiently at each step in our patients’ care.” deep expertise, DNV advances safety and sustainable
Although the boy correctly used the spelling word, Tradition is the first hospital on Florida’s Treasure performance, sets industry benchmarks, drives innovative
the teacher did not like the simplicity of his sentences Coast and the first hospital within the Cleveland Clinic solutions.
and noted this in large red ink on his paper. This Florida Region to achieve this certification. Whether certifying a company’s management system
was not the child being lazy but rather him coping “With stroke care, you must have the best clinicians and or products, accrediting hospitals, providing training,
with dysgraphia. After an evaluation and diagnosis resources, but also the ability to act organizationally with assessing supply chains or digital assets, DNV enables
with me, the parent got the school to give her son a extreme efficiency because of stroke’s time-critical nature,” customers and stakeholders to make critical decisions
504 Plan to give teachers understanding and her son says Madhu Sasidhar, M.D., president, Tradition Hospital. with confidence, continually improve and realize long-
accommodations. “We have put tremendous efforts into our stroke program term strategic goals sustainably. For more information
The causes of dysgraphia may include weak finger and into ensuring the health and safety of our patients.” about DNV, visit www.dnvcert.com/healthcare.
control, fine motor difficulty, seeing information one
way but writing it a different way, rapid recall from
memory difficulty, slow processing speed, working Dyslexia, ADD/ADHD,
memory weakness or a combination of factors.
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