Writing accommodations

This isn’t a post where I know what I’m talking about. I have questions for those of you working with or living with special needs kids who simply cannot write out their work reliably.

When do you start looking seriously at making an accommodation for writing?

What type of keyboard/computer/word

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Spelling… oral versus written

Well, the first two weeks of school went pretty well. Last week Mrs. R had the kids reviewing and quizzing on the 100 most frequently used words. This was 25 words per day, for four days. They were supposed to “write each missed word five times” for homework.

D1 didn’t BRING

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New school year, new adjustments

We are exactly 5 days into the new school year. The boys are both enjoying school so far, although I am still making adjustments. D1′s teacher is due to have a baby in about a week, and her last day of work will be this Friday, and she will have a sub for

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Dyspraxia at 7

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Currently D1 is doing very well. His speech articulation is almost 100% perfect.

He is currently working on language goals: Irregular verbs and irregular nouns (run/ran, man/men, etc) and a lot of thought process things related to language. Retelling something he read or that has been read to him (a’la

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School Bully

Well, yesterday we got down to the bare bones of the matter. I had come home yesterday afternoon to a message on the phone from D1′s bus driver. There was another incident on the bus, this time D1 had hit or kicked (it wasn’t clear which) a kid as he got off of

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