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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our daughter has dysgraphia and the diagnosing doctor said that it wasn’t worth working on handwriting because so many things could be typed and spell checked at this point and it is very hard to make appreciable progress on those elements of dysgraphia.  She also had other issues that required more attention.

By HS she has become better at not reversing letters and the like, but writing remains painful and very difficult to read.  She writes when necessary, like for science labs or math, but types otherwise.

I have never regretted just letting this issue go and, like the PP, focusing on typing or speech to text along with basic accommodations for school.[/quote]

?? The doctor said not to get OT? I find that pretty shocking. Yes typing is a necessity but I’m really surprised. Plus if a kid’s handwriting is that bad they almost certainly have dyspraxia/motor planning/motor skills issues that impact far more than handwriting. My DS with dyspraxia has terrible handwriting and of course I advocate for him to type in school or to be able to redo illegible written assignments. And I don’t spend our time/money on OT for handwriting at this point. But he needs a lot of support in fine motor/motor planning learning - or he would literally never learn daily living skills like cooking, cleaning, hygiene. [/quote]

I think it depends on whether the cause of OP’s daughter’s handwriting trouble is fine motor or dyslexia. For some reason most dyslexic children have atrocious handwriting, but it can improve as they learn to read. I’m dyslexic and my handwriting was illegible into high school. I never had remediation, though. I have no fine motor issues, it was the dyslexia manifesting in lack of attention to/understanding of letters and sounds.

I think it would really help OP to focus on finding out why her daughter struggles - is is motor issues, like PP’s kid? Or phonemic issues, and dyslexia?[/quote]

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