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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is she struggling with, OP? Handwriting? Or also putting together sentences? How is her spelling?

OG works on dysgraphia because it often goes hand in hand with dyslexia. I am a CALT and we teach cursive as part of therapy, and work on all elements of writing.[/quote]

Thank you for this.  So if the child does not also have dyslexia, is OG not the way to go?  She doesn't have dyslexia (I don't think).  She enjoys reading and does it pretty well.  Her handwriting is illegible, not on the lines, and she HATES doing it.  She has since kindergarten.  We did OT for a while to work on fine motor, and she can form the letters if she goes really slowly and with 1;1 support from the OT, so they graduated us.  But at school, her writing is illegible.  She also has trouble organizing her thoughts to create the sentences.  (She has ADHD and autism as well.)  Spelling is also hard for her.  She understands phonics, and I ask her to sound out a word when she's trying to spell it, and even if the word is spelled completely phonetically, she gets it wrong most of the time.  It's been a mystery to me, because she's super smart -- gifted IQ.  Dysgraphia makes all of this make more sense.[/quote]

Ah. She probably is mildly dyslexic. Not being able to spell even phonetically means she hasn’t learned to separate individual speech sounds and map them to letters. She probably knows it intellectually (sounds and letters match up) but the brain pathways haven’t been solidified. She is probably reading by rote memorization, which isn’t sustainable.

I’d get a dyslexia screen, and contact ASDEC. The great news is that she’s reading and has lots of cognitive resources! She probably just needs the right support.[/quote]

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