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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] It's just the unwillingness to actually begin writing.  He fights the process so much, and hates just getting started, and hates adding any more information or detail than he has to.  Once he does it, he's able to produce something in-line with his grade-level peers, so we've always looked at it as him just being really defiant about wanting to write, and being forced to write, but maybe there's something other than his natural defiant tendencies going on here.  [/quote]

Have you gotten a full language assessment from a qualified speech and language therapist?  I found that the neuropsychological exam does not provide enough information about language-based problems except in the broadest overall sense.

The full language assessment we got at the Lab School really defined the root of our child's language problems -- both with respect to dysgraphia and the receptive/expressive language deficits.  What you are describing sounds to me like symptoms that my child exhibits.  In my own child, I attribute these problems to word-finding difficulty, slow processing, difficulty with semantics which makes it difficult to generate examples based on the prompt, receptive auditory and pragmatic difficulties understanding both the explicit and implicit demands of the prompt, and executive functioning difficulties that make it hard to take thoughts in the brain and organize them on paper in a way that facilitates writing.

Consider a deeper language assessment if you haven't already gotten one.  I think it cost about $1500.  [/quote]

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