<p>D2 is a freshman with TERRIBLE handwriting. She has always gone to small private schools, so accommodations were made without an official IEP. She’s very bright-- scored in the 98th percentile on verbal section of ISEE’s–but the writing part of the SAT’s are going to kill her. She has very childish, illegible handwriting, and like many of the above posters’ kids, it takes a LONG time for her to write something legibly.</p>
<p>We’ve approached the HS learning specialist to begin formal documentation about her need for computers for in-class essays. She’s meeting at the end of this week with a pediatric neurologist to get the official dysgraphia diagnosis. It’s strictly for the SAT’s–as I said, her schools have always been fine with the substitution of computers on tests, taking class notes with computers, etc., but ETS is notoriously strict.</p>