Re: Writing issues WAS: does this happen to your child.. math

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I agree, typing on a keyboard helps tremendously. My son hates to have to

re-write a report over and over to get through all the drafts, and typing and

correcting one document helps. I just email it to his teacher. I made sure

that option is part of his IEP.

Now, if only I can get him past the ol' one finger type-and peck! Must look

into the Spongebob typing thing mentioned below - he'd love that!.

Laurel

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> > Since you brought it up, a I'm going to spin off this topic onto

> > another. writing issues. CLEARLY this is common with Aspie's, as I've heard

> > it mentioned a LOT. We are currently struggling with this. 's taken a

> > real aversion to " Language Arts " of any kind, because it has so much writing

> > in it. I know he often struggles to get his thoughts and ideas from his head

> > to the paper, but that's not the problem now. it's just plain WRITING!

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> > His teacher has really backed off on the " cursive " requirements for ,

> > as he gets INCREDIBLY frustrated with it - but any kind of writing, even if

> > it's just copying a sentence from a book onto a worksheet, and he complains.

> > Several Language arts periods at school have gone on with NO work, and

> > getting him to do vocabulary homework, where he has to copy a sentence from

> > the book, and then look up and write down the word's definition, for

> > example, are met with resistance and frustration. Even coloring, which is

> > something he used to GREATLY enjoy, has been a frustration point for him as

> > of late.

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> > What kinds of things do you all recommend to help him with this, aside from

> > OT? Is there anything we can do, or the school can do, to assist him, while

> > we wait to speak to an OT?

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> > Thanks in advance, all !!

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> > Subject: RE: ( ) does this happen to your child.. math?

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> > You are SO not alone on this one in our house!!!!!! As writing has been an

> > issue I thought I was being clever and getting maths workbooks (we

> > homeschool) with number stickers for the answers. The answer stickers were

> > bright and colourful but they did not follow a colour pattern when put into

> > the sums - that was a massive disaster with tears, meltdowns etc and those

> > workbooks mysteriously disappeared into the night, some things are so not

> > worth the fight! She also couldn't cope with a page of putting the answers

> > at the end of the sum and then moving on to have to figure the answers in

> > the middle of the sum eg she went from " 4 + 4 = ___ " to " 4 + ___ = 8 " even

> > though she was very capable of doing the work the different look of the sum

> > caused a meltdown.

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> > You are not alone!

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I haven't followed this entire thread, so please forgive me if I'm missing

something.

When my kids were in public school, they didn't teach cursive at all, because it

wasn't necessary. When we ;moved, we put them in Catholic school, and they are

learning cursive. I guess it depends on the school system if they place value

on it. It seems weird to have them sign legal documents later in life by

printing their name, but cursive may be going by way of the horse and buggy.

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> > > If it's hard these days, they get rid of it.

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> > > I'm with you, Barbara. I think it's important to teach this stuff too.

It goes beyond just writing. There are a lot of skills going on when this

happens, lots of connections get made in the brain that are good for long term

learning. It's scary to think people just dismiss it. If a child literally

cannot write in cursive, then there are a lot of problems going on that should

be looked at and addressed. Usually, they just say " Ok, no cursive " and everyone

sighs in relief. But nobody will address the core problems and they will cause

other deficits in other areas. The handwriting is just a symptom of other

problems going on - things like memory issues, visual perception issues, fine

motor...etc.

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> > > I'm all for accommodations for kids but not to the extent that we get

rid of dealing with the actual problem. We do not really " get rid " of the

problem, we've just gotten rid of a symptom of the problem. Just a year ago I

had an evaluation done on my 10 yo ds (dyslexia) and one example of the problems

he was having was that given a month long chapter book reading assignment to

complete, he could not read the book fast enough to finish within one month. By

month 3, he was still reading the chapter book. So the " fix " to this (for the

school staff anyway!) was to get rid of the monthly reading assignments for my

ds. Problem solved. lol. I just shook my head (in defeat? how do you counter

such nonsense?) and tried to explain how this solved nothing. lol. But it's the

same with anything we do with our kids. Homework, handwriting, reading,

composition - whatever we allow our kids to be exempted from is only a short

term band aide over the problem and the longer we avoid dealing with the core

problems, the harder it will be to help these kids long term.

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