Thanks for the ideas!
Polarbear - I'm not sure we could handle it it if his reading actually improved - its an exceptional strength of his - although he at this point resists adult sized font in books, preferring the kid spacing and possibly that's related to vision but we wouldn't do the VT just for that. And we are likely going that route but based on the first set of tests the dr would recommend it but not encourage it if that makes any sense.
MoN - his stuff is absolutely not where his peers are - he is in a gifted school and there were levels of quality across the K class, in terms of willingness and output. DS is one of the most creative,so his stories are deeper than his classmates but you can't read them. It was actually pretty demoralizing to see the others progressing while he really wasn't in terms of writing. And it was the comparisons that really underscored for us that the problem was not improving with regular classroom instruction.
We have done graph paper to practice but not for actually writing - I like that idea and the spacing idea
His is now willingly drawing - we got one of Ed emberly's book and breaking down a picture into circles and squares really helped, he was so delighted when he made a train that looked like a train, a car that looked like a car. It gave him such confidence!
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