Can2K, I'm on my phone and don't have time to reply in detail, but an LD diagnosis is a diagnosis for services at school, hence the comment about grades (which also isn't correct)... Is this a school psychologist who did the eval or was the eval specifically for school?

Whether or not your ds qualifies for services thru school, it sounds like he may be dysgraphic - and that's something that impacts his life. Parenting a child with a challenge is a bit like having two challenges to approach - how to remediate/accommodate for life, and how to get what is needed thru school.

Hope that makes sense!

polarbear