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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school is lazy.  No one wants to create a new worksheet with lines. That’s what is needed.  You can either draw lines or tape guideline paper that is cut out for the squares on the worksheet, etc.  The sad fact: no one cares as much as you, Op. [/quote]

This has nothing to do with lines. Lines wont help. With this disorder the brain and fingers must exert SO much effort to get simple things out that it interferes with expression. This looks like messy handwriting, incomplete sentences, poor punctuation, underdeveloped ideas. Before we had Dx, my child was called lazy, not following directions or not trying enough.  My child types now.  When he was younger he used voice to text to dictate answers and then edit them. With this approach he can express his ideas and explain them fully, using capitalization and punctuation. All his note taking is done on a laptop today.  He still hand writes some short form answers and lots of math as needed. [/quote]

This. As a parent of a HS senior with dysgraphia it is as much about the atrocious handwriting (despite 6 years in OT in our case) as it is about getting thoughts out. DS got an accommodation to use his laptop staring in 8th grade and it was a game changer. English is still his weakest subject, but he is getting a B in honors English now.  And he often will use grided paper for math that requires handwriting (he is in precalc) although he still does a good bit on his computer.

Part of his accomodation is to get a copy of notes (slow processing speed) but now that he types well, he rarely needs them.[/quote]

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