TestGraphia, Document Analysis-Based Diagnosis of Dysgraphia

Dysgraphia is a disease related to handwriting and affects the size and distance of the characters and orthography. Patients with dysgraphia may have difficulties in motor skills and can hardly write down what they think. Dysgraphia symptoms are not rare but often are temporary. There are no specific causes known that can lead to dysgraphia, and then it is impossible to prevent it. For these reasons, it is crucial to find out dysgraphia; traditional methods are based on specific paper forms and rules to diagnose a suspect of dysgraphia. In this paper, we present a document analysis-based diagnosis process to support doctors to formulate a diagnosis. The medical examination can be completed in a short time. This system allows also large screening activities reducing any effort and permits a remote doctor-patient relationship: while it is being developed as a web-application, and due to its ease of use, it could be used at home, eventually revealing early symptoms.