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Auntie
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Did you say your son has dysgraphia?
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That's what I'm trying to figure out. He produced the letters somewhat correctly. They do fundations for handwriting. What I noticed last night is that the letter formation is all over the page. He'll start at the top and do the stroke correctly most of the time, d and b are mixed up, some letters are backwards, and he writes from right to left a lot of times. He doesn't place it on the lines correctly. I would assume part of this is age appropriate.
He had OT services for 30 minutes only but the OT felt that he didn't need the service any more. The developmental ped felt he needed the service. The OT said his cutting was fine therefore he didn't need the service. The case manager agreed with me to keep him on monitor service and not drop him as it would be a pain to have to go through the eval again.
They are doing kidwriting now with a journal that we do at home. Yesterday he was to read a book and answer a question of his choice :What was your favorite part? or Who was your favorite character? He chose the favorite character. I preloaded with talking about a sentence and what he wanted to say. His response was "th maki was *he copied was from the paper* et bnn" The Monkey was eating the banana. There was a monkey in the book but he wasn't eating a banana and he didn't answer the correct question. I left it; they need to see how he is doing things.
Speech is doing a lot with phonemic awareness as that was a standard score of 8 as opposed to other scores which were in the 70 and 80's. He doesn't understand how to manipulate sounds. I've been saying that for 2 years and no one would believe me. My thesis was on phonemic awareness.
I had a response and it didn't post. Jon does the not crossing mid-line thing at school. His teachers asked if he was ambidextrous. I've not seen him do it in a while here.
They have a little ditty for each letter for example m, /m/, man but they don't introduce the long vowel sound until later.
Jon having a nice knowledge base I think helped to have him "under the radar" for a bit. They'd say he was so smart and he is. Having said that, now that things are more paper/pencil they are seeing what I've been saying all along. Would you bring this up with the teachers and see what they suggest?