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[quote=Anonymous]I had it added to my son’s IEP that he could fulfill any dumb art projects with digital images or other equivalent. He had had a keyboard accommodation for many years. This new term was after the English teacher made the kids do a handwritten, illustrated Greek mythology alphabet project in which she specifically said in writing  “no stick figures - you must do real drawing”. This was in eighth grade. I made the executive decision to let him type out and cut and paste the text into a flip book, and then found some kind of collage. Yours truly did any “coloring in”. It took a project that should have been enjoyable to something where there was a lot of screaming and crying because my kid is afraid of “getting in trouble” if he doesn’t do the teacher’s method, which he really didn’t want to do so he procrastinated until two days before it was due. She did mark it down because of the typing, even though she was supposedly aware of the keyboard accommodation.

It’s nice to let kids do something creative, but let them determine how. [/quote]

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