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[quote=Anonymous]It can be a lot of things. Nobody on this board can say this is normal or not based on what you shared. It could be  dysgraphia or another delay vs just needing practice. Only an expert who has spent time with him (his teacher) or an OT can say for sure. DD was evaluated at age 4 by the county for speech and, as part of that eval, they did an assessment of fine motor. The evaluator came back and said she was more worried about the inability to write letters and numbers than speech but also asked if DD had attended a play based preschool. She had. We had done lots of cutting, pasting, coloring, play dough but no real pencil work. The evaluator felt this likely explained it. We did consult an OT to be on the safe side and had her evaluated. It turned out that it was lack of exposure/practice but the OT found another issues that needed addressing so we decided to try Handwriting Without Tears while seeing her. Within a short time frame she could form her letters and numbers correctly. Based on this experience, we opted our son into a HWT enrichment program at his preschool. He arrived in K with illegible handwriting anyway. He struggled terribly. It turned out he did have dysgraphia and a muscle weakness. His K teacher flagged it. No amount of tracing letters or numbers in K would fix it so we turned to the OT who saw him for the next 5 years. Dysgraphia also affected his ability to organize ideas in writing. Based on my experiences as a SN parent, I think it never hurts to have an expert eval. [/quote]

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