Ds has multiple dx. He is delayed in all areas but one of the most difficult for him is handwriting, he is 8.5 and cannot write. This has been previously put down to a mix of dyslexia and asd but assessor on Friday was OT trained and believes that it is dyspraxia that is the main culprit exacerbated by the other conditions and that he will not improve, he cannot form letters, he has rotation on a, b, d, g, p, q, s, 3, 6, 7, 9, he is approx 2 years behind with his reading but is unable to spell the simplest words so essentially his writing looks like this "I woblc tod agoljst wI goup" (I would like to be a geologist when I grow up) with the addition of most letters being very poorly formed, a mix of upper and lower case and size variants! His comprehension is very good and if he is asked to tell you a story he can come with some great imaginative plots.
The suggestion is that he be given an IPOD at school with an application called Clicker on it which is basically a word processor with predictive text which can also read back what he has written.
Has anyone had anything like this for their child, did it make a difference, do you think that a child with the difficulties I have indicated would have enough of a word bank to successfully select the words predictively?
Any experiences welcome.
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