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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is normal but this is something that kinder and first grade teachers worked on as part of the curricula. It is no longer taught at schools except for in the most basic way.  If she is still not holding the grip correctly in kinder then work with her to get it right. It is much easier for kids to learn the correct grip and letter formation strokes in kinder than to learn them incorrectly.  We ended up having to work with a handwriting occupational therapy (using handwriting without tears curricula) and ods had to UNLEARN and relearn everything in 3rd grade. It would have been a million times better if this had been caught in kinder or first grade.

Now teachers in the early years of elementary have so much they have to get through that grip and letter formation are only only briefly touched on and not corrected.  It is really something that parents need to work on with their kids or have a professional help them with.

Even with computers and doing assignments on the computer, kids still have to write a lot by hand - math work, tests in class, etc, taking notes.

Schools do have OT for handwriting but kids will not qualify for this service at school if they do not have other diagnosed conditions that qualify them for special ed.  Just needing OT for handwriting is not something kids can get at school if they do not already have a special ed dx. So we had to pay OOP for the help my ds needed.

GL [/quote]

sorry we had to work with a handwriting occupational THERAPIST [/quote]

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