DS5.3 is the one I've mentioned previously we do have concerns with possible dyslexia and dysgraphia. His biggest problem with writing is even just thinking how to form the letters. He's known the alphabet since he turned 2 but still makes the same mistakes. Anytime he's doing writing, he's constantly asking "wait, how do you write this letter?" Even the first letter in his name "N" half the time he writes it as a mirror image and it's a letter he has to write numerous times a day. p/q/... n/h ... b/d are always an issue. But even something as simple as number 6 or letters G/g. The school is putting a huge emphasis on writing lowercase letters and only using upper case letters for beginning of a sentence or name and that frustrates him beyond imaginable. He's happy to come up with the uppercase. And I let him get away with it. If we do go with homeschooling, I'll probably try cursive with him because to me that seems a lot easier. And our private OT is trying different grips to see what would work better for him since he's really uncomfortable holding the pencil most of the time.
I need to cool down before I contact the school about this to dig deeper. Don't want emotions flying at the wrong time. But if we decide to keep him in school and not pull out, I am thinking about scheduling a new IEP meeting because every time I brought these potential issues up in the past, I was told we would address it if there ever are problems. And this to me definitely IS a problem.
