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[quote=Anonymous]You'd be surprised, but for many people writing incursive is easier than printing.  For some people - mainly girls/women, they can print as fast and as neatly as a frigging copying machine.

Many boys and perhaps girls too struggle with fine motor skills. Some of if is eventually overcome by age and neurological maturation.  Remember neurological maturation isn't complete until age twenty-five.

One problem with the mechanics of printing is that you must lift your pen or pencil from the paper after each letter and then find the correct place to begin your next letter. Doing that hundreds of times in a paragraph for a kid who has a fine motor skills delay can be torturous, frustrating and exhausting.

When we write in cursive we never remove the pen from the page so it's naturally easier to find the location to start the next letter.  This is doubly so if the child is sounding out the spelling of the word as they are writing any given sentence.  Also you can smudge a vowel or two if you ard kinda unsure of the spelling.

Good luck - I know your child will be fine.  Please don't be disappointed or dismayed by so many of these artificial learning benchmarks.  Neurological maturation actually takes 25 friggen years.  People have to work as hard as they can at any given moment in their youth to keep up.  However, if that occurs by age 20 or so we are all pretty much intellectually about the same.

The key however is if you have delays and you struggle more than other kids when you are young - well you can't quit and just give up trying.

Good luck - don't give up - you'll be surprised how time and maturity is a great intellectual and academic equalizer in a young person's life.

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