Does anyone know if there is a connection between dysgraphia and difficulty with keyboarding (typing) or playing a piano (or other musical instrument)? Keyboarding was recommended as an accommodation at school for DD's dysgraphia but she doesn't seem to like doing it (I have to keep reminding her at home to use 2 hands vs. hunt-and-peck with 1 finger). Also she had trouble recently with her piano class b/c the teacher wanted her to follow the fingering marked on the practice pieces but she was really pushing back. She did get a NEPSY score of 8 on imitating hand positions (still in the normal range) and overall NEPSY sensorimotor score of 102, which is 'average,' and 55th percentile. I'm beginning to think maybe she has fine motor trouble with all of these things, so that a keyboarding accommodation at school is not going to help too much, and we tried voice recognition software but it doesn't pick up her voice too well,
so I'm wondering whether I should be trying to figure something else out for an accommodation (like having her dictate stuff to me to type out for her until her voice matures enough to work with the voice software). But of course if she should be able to do it herself then I should work on that... I'm just starting to wonder whether there isn't more of a problem than we or the psychologist(s) recognized.
