Sunday, March 13, 2011

Dysgraphia resources

The typical accommodations for dygraphia are:
  1. permission to do all work on a laptop
  2. permission to mark answers in the test booklet (not on Scantron sheets)
  3. often extended time (double or time and a half, depending)
  4. if he has poor spelling then points not taken off for neatness and incorrect spelling on work completed in-class.

There's software that can help, including the FX Math/Science package for doing math problems, graphs, etc. This is available free to special needs kids from http://www.efofex.com.

Another resource is:  http://www.handwriting-solutions.com . Susanne Hutchinson is the owner of this company. Information is on the website, they have a resource book, and they'll do a phone/internet consultation to develop a set of recommendations.

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