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« Thread Started on Mar 22, 2010, 6:55pm » | |
Sean has dyslexia and dysgraphia although I have been told by the "professionals" that they are not called by these names any more.  He is in his 2nd year of OT and is in Special Ed. reading and writing daily(since Sept.). I am just wondering if you think it is reasonable for me to expect to have seen some improvement by now? I have seen none. His writing is still illegible, he does not write on the lines, does not use capitals where he should but uses them where he shouldnt, no punctuation, cannot copy writtien words correctly and is still reversing letters. His teacher really stresses the importance of these things, even writing them on top of each page. His IEP is coming up next month and I am wondering what more I could ask for. I don't think there should be perfection but just a little improvement though.
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« Reply #1 on Mar 22, 2010, 7:40pm » | |
I don't know. Shannon never could copy well from the board & she still just cannot write in cursive. I just pretty much gave up, as there were more important things to focus on in my mind, & in this world of computers, who needs to write in cursive anyway? I'd ask them exactly what they are doing to help him in these areas & see if maybe they could give you an answer as to why there has been no improvement.
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« Reply #2 on Mar 23, 2010, 4:48am » | |
I know I have read that a lot of people ask their kids be allowed laptops as they do pretty well on computers. How does Sean do on typing things? I guess I'm kind of leaning with Misty that learning cursive may not be the most important thing in the world. Some of the other things you mentioned...yes, they are important but maybe with a computer he'd be able to do them correctly. Just a thought. (I'm very tired so I hope I made sense.)
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« Reply #3 on Mar 23, 2010, 7:06am » | |
He has not even started with cursive yet. I am talking about printing. Honestly I think a computer would cause problems because he would view it more as a toy and it would be a huge distraction. Also we spend 2+ hours a night on homework and this would make it way longer. And the majority of his homework is in a workbook. It's pretty important to know the very basics of printing and grammar rules and if you dont know them while printing he will still have the same issues on a computer. I really want him to actually learn and know them.
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« Reply #4 on Mar 23, 2010, 11:32am » | |
Well, maybe I should have read your post more carefully as you sure didn't say anything about cursive. (I guess when you said write (rather than print) I translated it to cursive and then Misty mentioned cursive and I ran with it.  Sorry.)
I couldn't agree with you more, some of the things you mentioned he has to "get" or he'll have problems forever. I would, however, be curious to know if he could type things properly, that is, if he knows how to hold the shift key down for capitalizing letters, would he do it correctly then? I guess I wondering if it is him not wanting to take the time to think things through or is it a matter of him just not "getting it" or is his knowlege truly lost between his brain and making his hand put it to paper.
I'm going to try to do some searches to see what other parents have requested in their IEP's and if I find something that will be helpful I'll be sure to post.
I do think you should have seen some sort of improvements.
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