Post by jfla on Oct 9, 2008 20:10:49 GMT -5
Hi Mellissa,
Welcome! So glad you found us too! This is a great bunch of people with a a lot of info and support.
My son is almost 20 (away at college), adhd, gifted, LD in reading and language, and dysgraphic (his words all ran together with irregular spacing here and there, wrote between the lines in a wavy line, letters incorrectly formed; could only print; I retaught him cursive in 12th grade.).
My son also had a lot of difficulties getting it down on paper. I think part of the problem for him stemmed from the adhd in organizing his thoughts, low visual processing, half of his printed letters were formed incorrectly so that when he wrote fast it looked like a foreign alphabet. So what developed was an aversion to paper and pencil. How does your son do with typing/word processing? We ended up getting him something like a little laptop called an Alphasmart which was a lifesaver in highschool for note taking and writing.
To help him get thoughts down on paper, I'd sometimes help him by breaking the task down into simpler chunks and writing his ideas on paper sometimes in a loose form all over a big sheet of paper for brain storming then rewriting it in an organized approach. Another approach that helped my son was a computer program that he borrowed from a friend. It was mindmapping which looks like words in bubbles connected with line. theres a great program using this approach of which I will see if I can dig out the name. Well, I think it is great, but my son didn't like it. It is called Inspiration Here's the website: www.inspiration.com/Inspiration
Hope this helps
Welcome! So glad you found us too! This is a great bunch of people with a a lot of info and support.
My son is almost 20 (away at college), adhd, gifted, LD in reading and language, and dysgraphic (his words all ran together with irregular spacing here and there, wrote between the lines in a wavy line, letters incorrectly formed; could only print; I retaught him cursive in 12th grade.).
My son also had a lot of difficulties getting it down on paper. I think part of the problem for him stemmed from the adhd in organizing his thoughts, low visual processing, half of his printed letters were formed incorrectly so that when he wrote fast it looked like a foreign alphabet. So what developed was an aversion to paper and pencil. How does your son do with typing/word processing? We ended up getting him something like a little laptop called an Alphasmart which was a lifesaver in highschool for note taking and writing.
To help him get thoughts down on paper, I'd sometimes help him by breaking the task down into simpler chunks and writing his ideas on paper sometimes in a loose form all over a big sheet of paper for brain storming then rewriting it in an organized approach. Another approach that helped my son was a computer program that he borrowed from a friend. It was mindmapping which looks like words in bubbles connected with line. theres a great program using this approach of which I will see if I can dig out the name. Well, I think it is great, but my son didn't like it. It is called Inspiration Here's the website: www.inspiration.com/Inspiration
Hope this helps
