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    My 14 year old has been typing most of her work since 4th grade because her writing is too small & messy to read. She is much faster typing, hates to handwrite & complains of wrist aching. She wants to type all, especially with increased note taking & essay tests.

    So I went with teacher letters & sample papers to the school. They said that they can't do a 504 because she is a straight A student. But asked me to bring in an OT report that they could use to justify the laptop to her teachers.

    OT did the BOT II & a non-standard writing assessment of copying for one minute at fast speed & slow speed. The results are that she has low avg fine motor skills & poor grip. But the OT concluded that she is writing at twice the median speed for her age & is only 50% legible. If she writes at the median speed for her age, she is 100% legible. So it her fault & she just needs to slow down.

    I desperately want this to not be her fault. She has general anxiety disorder related to school & I don't think she can handle feeling responsible for this "failure".

    Is it possible that something else is causing the writing speed/illegibility? So could it be related to the anxiety or the giftedness or something else?









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    Just something to think about, I was recently told that dd(8) reads silently faster than she can keep up with reading aloud. Her writing is also horrible, and I believe that in part it is because she thinks faster than she can write (ie, her hand can't keep up with her brain.) It sounds like your dd may have the same thing going on, ie she's trying to make her hand keep up with her brain, and that leads to sloppy handwriting. My dd also prefers typing to handwriting, again, I would assume because it's faster for her. Not a professional opinion, by any means, but might be something to chew on.

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    Not a professional opinion, but handwriting is so BORING! I mean everyone here talks about making sure our kids are challenged with new things and how they can't stand repetition of old material...yet kids are forced to print or write so neatly over and over again. I think it is ridiculous and sad that its importance is emphasized to such an extent. Nan

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    Originally Posted by PipersMom
    Just something to think about, I was recently told that dd(8) reads silently faster than she can keep up with reading aloud. Her writing is also horrible, and I believe that in part it is because she thinks faster than she can write (ie, her hand can't keep up with her brain.) It sounds like your dd may have the same thing going on, ie she's trying to make her hand keep up with her brain, and that leads to sloppy handwriting. My dd also prefers typing to handwriting, again, I would assume because it's faster for her. Not a professional opinion, by any means, but might be something to chew on.

    I think you're on to something. And to the OP - my DS is a perfectionist, and allowing him to fail at things keeps him grounded. Sure it upsets him, but he's going to have to learn to take the hard roads as well (something I was never taught). Maybe the school/teachers can come up with a compromise???

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    Originally Posted by PipersMom
    Just something to think about, I was recently told that dd(8) reads silently faster than she can keep up with reading aloud. Her writing is also horrible, and I believe that in part it is because she thinks faster than she can write (ie, her hand can't keep up with her brain.) It sounds like your dd may have the same thing going on, ie she's trying to make her hand keep up with her brain, and that leads to sloppy handwriting. My dd also prefers typing to handwriting, again, I would assume because it's faster for her. Not a professional opinion, by any means, but might be something to chew on.

    I think this is exactly right regarding my DS, too.



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