MichelleC -I don't have time to go into detail - but fwiw my dysgraphic ds has the same issue you describe of not being able to get words out of his head and onto the page. We didn't realize the significance of his challenge in early elementary when he was diagnosed with dysgraphia because his neuropsych felt that once he was able to keyboard his schoolwork the words would flow, but it made no difference. We started noticing around 4thgrade that even though he seemed extremely verbal, the things he talked about were mostly factual things or experiences he'd had. He had always been very shy about talking to teachers or strangers, and around fourth grade he started telling us every now and then tan he didn't know what to say in certain situations. Way back then I had read the Eides books recently and there was one obscure line that mentioned issues like the difficulty with written expression ( getting thoughts out of their head) could be an indicator of an expressive language disorder and tha work with a speech language pathologist could help. We asked our neuropsych and she agreed,so we ha ds go thru an SLP eval, and he was found to have an expressive language disorder. He went thru several years of speech therapy specifically targeting how to get his thoughts out of his head and it helped tremendously.
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