<p>My 5th grade S was disgnosed with dysgraphia last summer. We did tutoring with the linda Mood program this summer as he also has a phonemic awareness issue (can’t decipher the phonics in a word) This was his 3rd attempt at tutoring and he can now spell basic words. His writing was a struggle last year- ask him to write a book review, it would take him 45 minutes for two frustrating sentences. Ask him to do it on the computer- you get a typed page of a review. I was hoping the tutoring this summer would mean he could write well this fall, instead, his teacher just has him go to the computer for anything more than a sentence or two of writing. We are just now talking to the middle school for next year to find how we can accomadate him. I am trying to find if we need an IEP now, so when high school and SAT time arrives, he will already have it in his record of a neccessity to type.
We tried to have him go slow, I tried to make him rewrite the sloppy, but when you go for testing and you see he can’t duplicate a circle with a triangle on top, you do realize there is a true problem going on.</p>