For the getting the words on paper, one thing that helps - I still do this for our engineers who need to collaborate on bids, etc. - is that I will interview them - ask them about the topic, what interests them. I ask them challenging questions - oh, really - why is that? - and the entire time, I'm typing as fast as I can to get snippets of the conversation into words. When I share these snippets, it is so much easier for them to put those snippets into text. I don't mind at all doing this, because it really is an accommodation for a disability, not me doing their work. If a teacher has created a project that obviously was "built for the entire family", that is where I have a real problem. I'll choose my own type of quality time with my kids, thank you very much.
