Originally Posted by master of none
Another factor, at least for my dysgraphic, is that he says that he can actually know how to spell a word, but can't make his hand write it. His hand automatically wants to write something else, so he has to double check and see what his hand did.

This happens with my ds too. Same thing happens with whole words sometimes. And math... aagh... happens all the time with numbers!

And checking his work for mistakes.... it's a really good idea in theory, but in practice he usually ends up making more mistakes on the things that were correct to begin with (spelling or numbers)...

polarbear