Dysgraphia
Back in January, I sent this email out to a select few of my homeschool friends regarding my oldest son: I have a question and decided to ask you few ladies. My son has struggled for years with penmanship. He writes very neatly and very well in his handwriting book . If he writes on his own, on a blank sheet of paper, he just can't do it. If he writes anything, it's a mess. He can't express his thoughts on paper because he struggles so much to remember how to physically form each letter. I've tried keeping a penmanship alphabet in front of him, but he will look up for almost every letter. I've been putting off dealing with this for the past two years. I have said, "He'll snap out of it." "One day it'll all click for him." But he's close to 10 years old now and he's feeling "stupid" (his own words) because he "can't write." Today, I sat him down to try to find out the problem and he sa...