The best strategy that we've found is to specifically look for curriculum/coursework that is discussion-based rather than written-communication based. Laboratory or literature courses that are inquiry-led and experiential are virtually ideal in this respect.
(DD is 11 and handily manages college-level literature, but high school output is challenging in terms of the volume of writing expected of her. Her writing skill set is about on par with an average tenth grader, but the rest of her literacy skills are much more like college level.)
We've also found that teachers who are flexible about presentation make things easier. DD doesn't mind doing creative writing, lab reports, or powerpoint presentations, but essays or research papers? Might as well just bring out the thumbscrews, thank you very much.
<sigh>
No doubt about it, it's a problem.
When DD was 5-7 yo, I would allow her to dictate a rough draft or organizer to me while I typed for her. I've done that since on rare occasions, as well. That way her hands don't have to move as quickly as her thoughts do. Of course, my typing doesn't move that fast, either. But it is an improvement.
One other tip that we've learned-- be prepared to reteach the note-taking, organizing, prewriting skills again once your child is about ten and has the executive skills to really 'hear' and apply the lessons.
I've been amazed at how much improvement we've seen in DD's ability to use the writing process to produce written work. Just in the past 18 months or so, her organization is suddenly just-- there. It was always a struggle before now.
(When she's had research projects to do, if she had an option, up until recently I always had her do something that had a natural narrative in time-- because "chronological" was about the only type of organization that she could maintain on her own for a ten page research paper.)
So-- Biographies of Jonas Salk... Francis Bacon... Theodora of Bynzantium... good. History of ____, also good.
The Impact of the Black Plague on the Hanseatic League...
er... maybe not... surely this could be a chronological story of some sort, eh?
Yes to graphic organizers-- but in all frankness, with kids that have serious (developmentally related) organizational difficulties because of their asynchrony, they have so MUCH to say that the graphic organizers are really frustrating to use. Those little bubbles just don't hold enough!! This is why we like timelines better-- a timeline can be a BUNCH of pages taped together and folded/rolled when not in use. It leaves a lot of space to record information (even in the larger/less tidy handwriting of a 6-10 yo).
HTH. We figure that eventually this asynchrony will even out. We just have to help our DD bridge the weaknesses until then.
