My homeschooled son took a once a week writing composition class that required a lot of writing. Weekly writing assignments were not a problem because he typed those on his netbook or computer at home, but it was a struggle to write the required paragraph in five minutes at the beginning of each class. He has low muscle tone and his hands tire quickly. He did not want to ask for accommodations. He did not want to take a netbook to class. But after he couldn't finish all of the writing on the first semester test I asked the teacher if it would be okay for him to use his iPhone to type out answers to essay questions. None of the kids in the class saw him use it, and he was the first one finished with the test. He emailed it to the teacher at the end of class. It worked really well. He did the amount of writing he could physically do on the test but typed the rest.
He did well enough on the test that he made a 98 for the semester even though he was diagnosed with a disorder of written expression/dysgraphia two years ago.
Since he learned to type well and took the writing comp class he can now write really good poetry and short stories. He would not have been able to do this if he were not allowed to type his work.
