I am wondering if you found anyone to help with Dysgraphia here in Madison? One OT at the handwriting center at Meriter missed it, the school psych, and the neuropsych missed it, and now that he is back in a more structured classroom, I am seeing clear signs of it. He is at Walbridge so they are pretty easy to work with, but it seems without an offical DX they are having trouble seeing it, despite many long emails, phone conversations and meetings about the stress that certain writing assignments are causing my son, so I am looking for something more concrete. Being HG and with highly developed verbal skills, people tend to just assume he could not possibly have an LD and he gets in trouble for truculence. The neuropsych basically called him clinically stubborn. Argh.
Also, have you considered Walbridge for your son? Turns out there are kids there like him. My son is not AS (he's ADD/dyslexic/dysgraphic) but has a couple friends there who are, and are doing quite well there despite previous horrible public school experiences like bullying, etc. I am very pleased overall with the school and they have been very responsive to my promptings for a different approach to written work, and are now offering assistive tech and teachers are altering their expections for certain types of written assignments that really frustrated him. Since he is a rather unusual combination of gifts and deficits, I get that they are still figuring him out (he only started there in Dec.) The key is that they are responding very quickly to my insisting they need a different approach. Not what one gets at MMSD or from the insurance cos.
I am also curious if you have found a local OT you like?
