This problem bothers me for years. Since DS8 was in kindergarten, he always have trouble on writing task both in school and home. It always takes a long time for him to start first sentence. He rarely finished journal writing at school, even I helped him to go through all the details before he went to bed. His reading level is at mid school. He is a great speller. No problem on grammar too. I don't know why it is so hard for him just writing something he did yesterday. For specific topic that teacher gave the class, sometimes he could finish at school (he usually is the last one to finish), sometimes he had to take home to finish. His teacher rated his writing on average 2nd grade, the only concern is time management.
I talked to DS why he needed so much time to finish writing. He said he could not organized his thought, before he could put his thinking on paper, he was distracted by something else. He also told me his attention span cannot last long. I know he only can focus on his interests but not something he needs to do. I found out his writing jumping different ideas between the sentences, like most sentences are independent. Sometimes his thinking is falling into very details like specific names, places and time. If he could not remember or spell out the names, it stuck his mind too.
Last week I talked to our pediatrician, she suggested we can have him practice more on writing. If practicing doesn't do the work, maybe we need to consider to have him evaluated by specialist to address the problem. Maybe he has attention problem or some kind of output problem of his brain. I am not good writer too and English is not my native language. I don't know how to teach him on writing. Should I hire a tutor? I have read about gifted children's thinking is faster than handwriting, plus writing is not his interest so he cannot focus on it. How can I help him to improve? Is any possible LD would contribute this? (I know dyspraxia is not fit him) Any sharing will be appreciate.
