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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Might be too late for this but my kid has terrible handwriting and I submitted an occupational therapist evaluation where I highlighted relevant sections (note they are reading the application very quickly, which is why I did this) and in the notes section at the bottom of the parent survey said something like "See attached highlighted sections. Handwriting reflects XYZ issues and not motivation." Got in on the regular application with lower scores (don't know HOPE but expect it was good). I don't think explicitly addressing the handwriting could hurt.

You might be able to get Fairfax Pediatric Therapy to turn a report around quickly. I don't know for sure but we got an initial appointment pretty quickly and the report within 2 weeks without asking for it to be expedited. Therapy itself took more of a waiting period to have an opening.[/quote]

I noted the handwriting issue too. My parents literally got pulled into a parent-teacher conference for my sibling at TJ. Teacher accused sibling of doing all homework on the bus in the mornings. Nope - sibling had terrible handwriting and so it just [b]looked[/b] like sibling was writing on a bouncing, moving bus. Teacher spent the entire year convinced sibling was an unmotivated slacker anyway, and treated sibling accordingly. It was pretty appalling.

Handwriting matters to some people for this stuff.[/quote]

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