Well the results of the psych-ed assessment are in - my 11-year-old stepson has exceptional gifts in the verbal language department and reading department but has some serious deficits in the written language department. He is both gifted and dysgraphic - a frustrating combo in which he has great ideas but can't communicate them in his writing because writing for him is like asking a blind man to see what is beneath his nose.
So for the cost of $2,000, I know now what I knew before - that I could have an exceptionally intelligent conversation with the kid but watching him write his homework was both slow and frustrating. Also, for the cost of $2,000, we can now have permission to start making his life easier by equipping with the tools he needs to circumvent his disability and enable him to meet his full potential.
So why start a blog about it? Because, I can tell that my homework assignment is just beginning and I may as well provide some crib notes for other parents also experiencing the joys and frustrations of a gifted dysgraphic kid...
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