Anyone heard of poor hand-eye coordination as a root cause of difficulty with handwriting, and know about the implications? We've just had a visit from a friend who taught children of similar age to DS for many years, and had some special interest and training in children's difficulties with reading and writing. She saw him writing and also played ball with him, and commented that we should talk to someone in the school's learning support department about this - she reckons there are some games and exercises that might help him a lot. It wouldn't have occurred to me; both his parents are terrible at ball games so I wouldn't have connected that with the writing thing (in fact writing was also a pain for both of us, although we got good enough eventually, so it is consistent that there might be a connection!)
FWIW he smashed his record for the speed-writing task today, and I'm not really too worried about him - but the learning support people exist and are nice, and if there are things that might help him, I'd certainly like to enlist them.
