my dd8 is third grade and her handwriting is...well, actually, it's been improving since we went to homeschooling and I'm not making her write anymore than I think she has to...but it's not very good, that's for sure. Additionally, she doesn't really like to write, though she does like to draw and writes better on spelling tests.
My neighbor is an OT and says many kids who skipped crawling (which is many giftees) have this problem with writing...couple that with often minds that go faster than pencils can move...
I don't believe writing ability is a measure of giftedness...if so, every doctor I ever met was actually a moron, lol! If anything, the giftees seem to have more issues with it than less and I would think a gifted school would get that?
Why not ask about keyboarding? I also don't understand why gifted would equal writing alot? My DD has the option of things like dioramas or redesigning a book jacket for a book report...most of the tests are bubble in so I have just decided it's not important to me that she have perfect writing, but is able to exprerss herself and demonstrate she knows the material.
fwiw-my mom has textbook perfect penmanship, mine is slightly less, but quite nice...my dad is a lefty and when he was a kid, they tried to make them righties, so he twists his hand around and has very slanty, spiky "closed" writing. My DH is also a lefty with really, BAD writing, lol! Sometimes I'm not sure what he's written! haha! Both DD's of ours form letters in an unusual way, like from the line up and it often makes me wonder if they should actually be leftys even though they both use right...
