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[quote=Anonymous]I have GT/LD child with dysgraphia.  What do you mean "scoring off the charts"?  Are you referring to IQ?  To school testing, if so, which ones?  Either way, scoring "off the charts" does not preclude getting an IEP. A child can receive an IEP even if he/she is not failing.  The key question is what is their performance in writing?  Are they passing the writing assignments in class?  If so, is what they are writing demonstrative of their actual knowledge, if not that's a problem.  (i.e. if a kid can orally speak paragraphs as an answer, but will only write a sentence or two if forced to answer in writing, that's indicative of a problem)?  Or is writing so difficult and laborious that it is consuming all their time just to keep up or causing anxiety or frustration in class?  Also problems.

Dysgraphia can be kind of a broad diagnosis, because, of course, writing involves a number of different processes.  As PP said, one part of disorders of written expression can often be problems with handwriting that require OT.  Our experience is that, no matter how bad handwriting is, in MCPS the school will not provide "teaching" of handwriting.

Another part of DoWE/dysgraphia, is being able to mentally organize and express your thoughts.  And, if being asked to respond to a reading, being able to read and mentally organize what you read.  My DC has trouble with this, has an IEP, gets prompts and support from his SPED teacher in the regular classroom and gets to use graphic organizers to help him organize any writing over 2-3 sentences long.

Another part of DoWE/dysgraphia, can be trouble spelling or punctuating, correcting grammar, etc.  You have to look carefully at why your DC might be having trouble here.  For my DC, trouble spelling is clearly related to poor understanding of what the letter/sound correspondence is.  It is also due to a poor ability to read accurately, and thus he has trouble reading what he wrote accurately enough to correct.  And, in our case, it is due to a poor understanding of semantics and syntax.  He needs explicit and repetitive teaching of grammar, etc. to be able to make corrections.  The school is not really willing to remediate my DC in these areas (my sense is that they don't really know how and/or don't want to give more time under the IEP.)  Instead, he is allowed to use the computer to write, to use spell and grammar check and has access to special "word prediction" software that helps him spell/choose the right word as he writes, and he can have the computer "read" his work back which makes it easier to notice errors.  [/quote]

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