DS8 struggles to get any work done at all in school, in spite of an IEP that allows him to type or dictate his work (he has dysgraphia). When asked why, he says he has trouble finding the right keys and that he "just doesn't know what to write". The former appears to be a fluency, not visual, issue and we will attempt to address it with a typing tutor. The latter, however, appears to be a problem even when he is given a very specific topic. He is highly verbal and can give lengthy disquisitions on no end of topics, as well as tell elaborate stories. Were any of these oral offerings committed to paper, they would be well above grade (3) level. Yet even when dictating to a teacher, not typing, he gives disjointed sentence fragments that are far below grade level. And only gives that after countless nudges.
I have been trying to determine, entirely unsuccessfully, if the lack of new material (his classwork has been in subjects he exhausted on his own in previous years), his perfectionism, or anxiety is the key driver, or if this is a brand new problem that we have yet to label and address. I would be grateful for any suggestions/words of wisdom.
