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I don't necessarily think that my DD is a VS learner. She has some of the characteristics (different ones from you son) but not all. Even if a person is good at thinking visually or processing visual input they can still have a problem with motor output of visual info. From my understanding of the Eide's book, you can think of the brain as having various inputs (visual, auditory, tactile, etc.) and various outputs (motor, speech, etc.) If there is a bottleneck in one these the person has trouble processing incoming information or producing certain kinds of output. So it is possible, for instance, to have great vocabulary, comprehension, writing and reading skills but be unable to express oneself verbally on a comparable level to one's understanding. Producing written output is such a complex task that a bottleneck in just one area can affect performance. Things become even more complicated when somebody has more than one bottleneck!

I don't think that you have to have an affinity for puzzles or building things to be a VS learner. From how you describe your son's thinking style, it sounds like he is a big-picture person who sees something as a whole concept and then looks at the details. A more sequential learner would look at how the details go together and then see the big picture. At least, that's how I understand it . I think that visual/spatial vs. auditory/sequential is a very broad distinction and not very useful in a lot of situations.

My DD doesn't have a scribe at school although I sometimes scribe for her on homework. She tells me what to write or how to do a math problem and I just write what she says. If it's an actual handwriting practice assignment she does that herself. Lately, she has preferred typing her homework because she recently increased her keyboarding speed to where typing is faster than writing.

What if you initial his homework yourself and add a note that you have checked it and it is complete per his IEP? Often, teachers have other people grading the homework and even recording the scores. His accommodation is just slipping through the cracks!