Hello
My ds is 7 and has a recent diagnosis of DCD. He initially presented with attention problems, anxiety, poor fine motor control (issues with buttons and pencil grip) and motor planning problems.
6 months on and many of these are resolved, however his handwriting is mostly still illegible.
We have just been signed off from the lovely OT. She says that his visual processing is at age 9-11 so no problems there. In this final session he did 10 minutes of handwriting. The task required him to choose a topic and then write on it.
Whilst she was impressed with how quickly he chose a topic, and how he organised his thoughts to commit it to paper (he is bright and his sentence structure, vocabulary, spelling and grammar are excellent) she did say he still has considerable motor issues with writing.
We are both worried that as his learning becomes increasingly complex he will get more and more frustrated by his inability to commit his ideas to paper (and frankly I feel sorry for his teacher having to decipher his writing - it goes on different lines, is smudged, is inconsistent in letter size/squashed etc) Basically she suggested getting him to use a keyboard in class.
Could anyone give me their opinions or experiences of word processing at such a young age in school?
Whilst I am not averse to it, the slightly more old fashioned members of my family think he should persevere with writing exercises (although the ot says these are laborious and not great). My mother thinks he will forget how to write and will be stigmatised for being different.
Many thanks.
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Partridge · 29/01/2014 22:10
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