moonlight Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Hi. Looking for help. After talking to a writing teacher that my son has been taking classes with, I'm starting to suspect that he may have dysgraphia. I don't know much about it at all. I'm trying to read as much as I can about it. In the meantime, I'm wondering if there are any specific curriculums that would work for him? Any particular strategies that you have found helpful. He is 9 years old/ 3rd-4th grade level. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSmomof2 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 (edited) nm Edited September 30, 2017 by Bethany Grace 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie of KY Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 My son has severe dysgraphia (and is very gifted). What works for him won't work for others as each person is very different. Getting evaluated was helpful. OT - no success here Vision therapy - huge success in helping his physical act of writing (letter formation and size); this was related to issues with how he processed visual spacial information Lots of copywork Years of scribing (into high school) oral narrations (turning ideas into sentences) Composing sentences/paragraphs - this has been very difficult; things that seems most helpful were freewriting (timed, but purely creative to get words on paper); Brave Writer classes have helped tremendously at teaching him structure and being encouraging at each step. Much of his writing sounded very simplistic for years, but it has finally all come together (still takes forever) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebcoola Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Diane Craft Brain integration particularly her figure 8's our ALE learning specialist recommended it and it really made a marked improvement it takes a few months of doing it consistently. My DD was pretty mild but even if you just used it while you explore a diagnosis and set up therapy it would probably help. Also here they recommend struggling students compose using the Dictation Dragon app and then rewrite or type their papers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lecka Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 My son did Figure 8s, too, but through OT instead of with Dianne Craft. I imagine pretty similar stuff. It helped him, too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlight Posted January 10, 2016 Author Share Posted January 10, 2016 The figure 8s!! Thanks for reminding me. That was something we started a while ago and slacked off.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faithr Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 (edited) I have one son who was diagnosed with dysgraphia and 3 out of the 5 other kids seem to have some problems as well, though not as severe. I am going to echo what Julie of KY said except that OT helped enormously for my son. VT helped some too (and really helped with his very slow reading speed), lots and lots of copy work also helped. Although he learned to type and types a lot, he still had to practice handwriting every day all through high school. He used Handwriting Without Tears but after a while switched to Italics which he stuck with and now at the age of 23 still writes in that style. Edited January 10, 2016 by Faithr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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