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[quote=Anonymous]My 6 year old has always been averse to writing.  He was evaluated about a year and a half ago for OT and not found to have motor deficits as the cause.  Over the last year they have improved but any pressure to practice is still met with tears and strong refusal.  Recently they have been much more likely to write voluntarily during play (writing out a sign or labeling things) and we do all we can to gently encourage this trend.

They don’t write a bunch of their letters in the stroke order or direction I learned (I.e. they start their lowercase a with the line and proceed counterclockwise and they start most letter with vertical lines at the bottom).  They like to play around trying different ways to form the letter shape instead of consistently writing it in one way.

Curious when it becomes important to really  force the issue on this.  Their teacher so far believes that continuing to let him produce writing his way is much better than forcing the issue and triggering negative associations with writing itself.  [/quote]

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