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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of you parents who say your kid can't draw well, I hate to break it to you, but they can't write very well either.  If your kids got the grades they actually deserved on writing assignments, you'd complain about that as well.[/quote]

Or my kid who can’t draw well has a disability that impacts their finger dexterity.[/quote]

One of mine does too.  It’s not in his 504 because it’s not generally an issue and it’s such a pain to go back and request it be edited to this dumb assignment.  He has a no handwriting accommodation but he’s supposed to be able to draw???

My other kid just hates it and is terrible at it.  She’s beyond frustrated that they’ve only read one book all semester and would be happy to write an essay instead.  Or read another book and write an essay.  [/quote]

As a parent of a kid with serious OT issues, you are making a mistake by never requiring your child to do handwriting for assignments.  Handwriting works in tandem with neural development.  Typing just doesn't have the same results.  And I am also saying this as a high school teacher who suffers through reading really bad handwriting.

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I stupidly trusted MCPS when they repeatedly told me he didn’t need services and that a typing accommodation was just as good.  We were doing a lot of therapy for other things.  I think he’ll be fine in th end though — I work with a lot of genius lawyers who can’t hand write at all.  And honestly I’ve retrained my own brain to be typing focused.  I’m a left handed person and writing has always been mentally exhausting for me in a way that typing is not.  I learned to speed type at age 11 and did very well academically.  I never hand wrote an assignment after 8th grade and even in the 90s most of my college and law school exams were typed.  I’ve seen the research you’re referencing and I don’t think it separated out people for whom hand writing is difficult, left handers, or neurodivergent people.  
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