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[quote=Anonymous]Like others have said it is dysgraphia.  My son has it.  He also has dyslexia.  He can "write" if he dictates.  If he has to hand write it, he self edits to the absolute minimum and often less.  If he types, it is somewhere between.  Since he has both diagnoses, we is learning to use Dragon Naturally Speaking.  Last summer FCPS spent five mornings to get him up to sped on the basics and he has been usuing is sporatically since.  He hasn't had enough homework at home to make it fluent yet, but he has been relatively successful.   We did not introduce Dragon until between 7th and 8th because it requires some maturity to work through the frustrations.

If your DC has only dysgraphia, typing may solve the issue.

Neither dysgraphia nor dyslexia is related to intelligence.

If people you care about have trouble grasping this.  Have them try to write something upside down with their non dominant hand.  The extra effort they have to devote to the physical part of writing is what a child with dysgraphia has to do all the time.  You can do this with a book and have them try to read it upside down.  [/quote]

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