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

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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!

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.

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?

Thanks in advance, all !!

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Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 5:35 AM

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

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.

You are

not alone!

a