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[quote=Anonymous]I have a dual identified (gifted/ASD) child in 5th grade. He’s in a fully cotaught classroom and the teachers work together well implementing supports. My son prefers the gen ed teacher so he mostly works with her for support during independent work.
He has a serious block for anything related to writing and is very rigid. The teachers are very concerned.

They have tried a variety of strategies- choice board (for example “write 2 sentences” and then he gets a 5 or 10 minute break to read or play a preferred iPad game, etc), first/then, checklist, sending work home (he refused to take it so they sent it with his brother).

They have the writing task broken down to small steps (he is given a one page article, he is asked to find a face about the topic and highlight, then put the fact in his own words, then type or write that sentence into a graphic organizer). The teacher offers to scribe for him or help him use voice to text. He just completely refuses to do the work and will walk away, go under his desk, read in the classroom library and ignore the teachers request to come sit with her or at his desk to do the work.

He is completely capable of the task and when push comes to shove, and he finally does it (at the 11th hour after I’ve been involved or he has to bring the work home), he does it very quickly (not amazingly well but it gets done to a satisfactory level).

We are all very frustrated and don’t know what to do. My son doesn’t like writing and he says he’s not good it at but how can you get better if you never do it?

The teachers are looking ahead to middle school and talking about writing essays and paragraphs and he won’t even do a sentence! Help! Any ideas? He doesn’t care about grades.[/quote]

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