Wow DeeDee, that is a really interesting point. DS8 has beautiful handwriting but is painfully slow. Maybe he is actually "drawing" his letters.
We know he is a REALLY visual spatial kid and thinks in pictures and sees things in 3D in his head etc so maybe there's a mix of things.
He was reasonably on track learning to read but it then turned into a torturous process for a couple of years with little gain (we hadn't had him tested at this point) but then just as we started to really worry within a week he was reading chapter books like it all just clicked into place.
It is SO tricky to figure out what is going on sometimes.
The other thing with his writing is that he CAN do it, and has done it by choice and when he had to (sitting our Australian National benchmark testing).
Cheers
abra
