We were also told that reversals are very common through 2nd grade. Jack'smom's reply reminded me of something that might be worth considering. Once we had a dysgraphia diagnosis for our ds, we were told to try Handwriting at Tears at home to attempt to teach him the correct way to form each letter. Our neuropsych's recommendation was to work on HWOT for 20 minutes per session for several months over e summer. Our ds couldn't make it past 5 minutes without extreme hand pain and was never able to finish more than 1-2 lines of practice printing in the HWOT sheets.
If you were to try HWOT or a similar handwriting program at home and saw similar things, that would be a strong indication of dysgraphia.
I also think that's what "normal" has to be viewed in light of two extenuating circumstances for DeHe's ds - he has a dyslexic relative (genetics can be a clue) and his teachers have raised concern.
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