School for child with dysgraphia
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Anonymous
| Middle elementary age. No other identified learning issues, above average test scores. MD or DC preferred. Any suggestions? Thanks. |
Anonymous
| The Siena School in MD or the Lab School in DC |
Anonymous
I don't have any private school recommendations as we opted to stay in public. However, I would suggest encouraging typing as much as possible and having DC dictate to a scribe at school and at home. He also gets teacher/class notes. While our DC hasn't been able to achieve fluency with typing, he is still above his age peers. We also waiting until the summer before 8th grade to introduce Dragon Naturally Speaking (last summer), mainly for maturity reasons as it can be quite frustrating a first. He uses it for homework and he is getting the hang of it. Good luck to you! |
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Are you having a problem with your public schoool. Is he/she GT. If the testing shows GT I would stay with public unless you are unhappy there.
We went private but my son's are not GT (which means public gives less services/actually no services). We use a outside tutor from ASDEC and are in a mainstream school. For HS you can look at St. John's and OLGC (both have programs for kids with LDs). I love both programs. I also think Bullis allows tutors to come into the school (I am not positive about that because we don't go there but I heard this and we are looking for HS). They have a lower school. They have supportive services in the afternoon and a writing lab. You may want to consider looking there. My kids are learning to type. I scribed for them until middle school. |
Anonymous
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OP again. Thanks, all. 8:25, DC is currently in a private school and everyone is doing their best, but we get the feeling they think DC might be better served elsewhere. We need to at least look at some other options.
Testing shows GT, but not extraordinarily so. DC is bright, a little anxious, and has no trouble in any area but handwriting. Thanks for the helpful advice and suggestions; please keep them coming! |
Anonymous
| St. Andrews? |
Anonymous
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If the only issue is handwriting (as opposed to getting his thoughts down on paper), almost any school can work. My extremely bright, extremely dysgraphic DS is at Sidwell and doing fine. He types everything, and got a typing accommodation for standardized testing.
Not saying it would necessarily be the right school for your son (I think it's not a great fit for anxious kids) but just that I wouldn't rule any school out for handwriting issues. |