DS8 struggles with writing as well at school. Its not that he can't...its that he has formed some kind of block knowing hes not " the best " at it and figures if he avoids it as much as possible, he won't have to deal with it...He says he has all kinds of ideas, but figuring out how to start it out is where his sticking point is, plus he hates writing by hand. I've been trying to have him set a goal of writing about topics with a matrix I've created for him so he knows what is supposed to go where so he can try and map it out visually ( hes a visual spacial learner ) and once he comes up with a final product that meets all thats written in the matrix he gets to chose something fun to do activity wise. My hope is the more comfortable he gets with seeing that he can do it, the less resistance he will put up at school when it comes to writing.
That word game shitu sounds great I may try that with him to work on starter word prompting that is done quickly! (Hes very competitive so anything he can try and beat me at, should do the trick! )
