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[quote=Anonymous]The school is saying that they do not want to provide high tech accommodations for essays, tests, or worksheets for DD- a 3rd grade student with diagnoses of tourette's, adhd, and dysgraphia.  They collected data for a 6 day period on 7 writing samples to compare her writing using a computer(which she just had started using) to her written work- they said there is no difference. They are saying there is no substantial limitation in her writing compared to her non-disabled peers because:
-she did not need prompts to refocus compared to her non-disabled peers who needed many
-she did not require support with her writing
-she did not need prompts to start writing compared to her non-disabled peer
-she did not need prompts to refocus and continues writing compared to her non-disabled peers
-she spent less time writing than her non-disabled peers
-she completed more work than her non-disabled peers
-her grades were higher than her non-disabled peers

Meanwhile, she cannot read fluidly back her written assignments nor can my husband or myself, she has letter reversals, difficulties with capitalization and punctuation, her writing is all over the place and does not stay within the lines, has lots of erasure marks, her ideas appear disorganized to me and my husband, she would prefer to type, and self-reports struggling to correctly write bs,ds, qs, ps, without lots of forethought.   She has high average verbal cognition and map scores for math in the 80th percentile. Reading map scores have been stagnant this year with no improvement and dropped from the 80th percentile to the 60th  
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