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[quote=Anonymous]You might be able to get a 504 plan to allow the accomodation of typing.

Make sure your son learns how to write cursive.   Teach him yourself if your school won't.

Regular sentence dictation helps a great deal.   Don't start at his current reading level, but at his current writing level.   Dictate simple sentences and have him write them down.

If that means "The fat cat sat on the mat" then that is fine.   Whatever he can easily write.

For class assignments, have him dictate the answers to you.   You write them down.   Then take a break, and later you dictate them back to him, and he writes them down.   (don't have him copy them except as a stopgap measure.)

Basically, break the components of writing down and help him improve each part.  He needs to build writing stamina.   ALso it is hard to think up your ideas at the same time you are writing them, if writing is hard for you.   Better to brainstorm first, and dictate; then do the process of transcribing separately, until the process becomes more automatic.

ALso -- use of an erasable gel pen is highly recommended for reluctant writers![/quote]

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