My son was diagnosed with dysgraphia and a fine motor-neuro disorder when he was 7. We had to test him privately, because the school wouldn't test him since he wasn't two full years behind in his performance. Dysgraphia is so not just about handwriting. Yes, his was illegible, didn't follow the lines and drifted off the page at 5. He went to speech, occupational and physical therapy for several years and now has quite nice handwriting.
He still has dysgraphia (now sixth grade). And it still severely affects his performance in some areas - copying words from a blackboard or screen onto paper is a nightmare, doing rote calculations for beginning algebra means he gets almost all of the answers wrong due to calculation errors in following the lines, not because he doesn't get the concept. His spelling is random and quite atrocious, although he is now reading at a 10th grade level and his verbal skills tested at 10th grade as well. When he has to write essays, he only writes the basic words, but if he dictates, his writing is creative and engaging.
His accommodations that are still on the books: scribe when needed for testing, someone to read questions for testing, keyboarding instead of writing, audio books when available, longer time to complete projects, classroom assignments and tests, alternative projects when the assignment has too much writing or copying, and several more.
Advocate to keep the accommodations on the books, because if he has dysgraphia, the challenges are not going to go away. They will simply change as he masters some skills and finds he has new challenges when presented with more difficult tasks.
Hope this helps.
