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[quote=Anonymous]I have a feeling my DD, age 7 in 2nd grade, has dysgraphia.

She is an excellent and voracious reader with an impressive vocabulary.

But her handwriting doesn't seem to have improved since preschool.
She can pass spelling tests of easy words when she's studied them, and they're dictated to her in a word list, but when it comes to writing a sentence it ALL goes out the window, even words like "he" and "so."
She can do handwriting exercises "ok" when it's just about the handwriting--but again, when she has to write on her own, it all goes to pot.
She doesn't capitalize the beginning of a sentence, doesn't put spaces between words, writes painfully phonetically, and punctuation is far behind her peers in 2nd grade.
Her writing assignments are very poor--again, despite being a very avid and accomplished reader.

How was your child diagnosed with dysgraphia?  Do you know exactly what assessments were conducted, by whom, and at what age/grade?
How is the child's school responding with accommodations?  
How did you get the diagnostician (I'm assuming a PhD neuropsych does this) and the educators to agree on best approaches?

Thank you![/quote]

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