Well, it has been decreed. A child who is good at maths is not entitled to any support with fine motor skills problems.
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It's so infuriating. Systems which don't account for individuals. Last year, she wasn't entitled to a scribe w/out also having a reader.
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Reading age was a year ahead. She has no learning disability, just a problem with fine motor skills. Arghhh!
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We're in a quite similar situation. One partial solution we've negotiated: he can use voice-to-text on some projects/homework.
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Oh really? Lucy can do homework on a keyboard and that takes the problem away.
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Mine can as well, but typing skills are early days so time is an issue.
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I had appaling handwriting, was told by geog teacher to stop using cursive. Did went up a set in near every subject. It matters.
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Ugh. This has also driven me mad. Every new teacher had different idea about whether cursive will help or hinder. Neither.
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No, in her case cause sounds much different to mine from that PoV.
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You can see the effort. The knuckles go white as she tries to make the pen move where she wants it to.

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Does she have the same prob writing on a whiteboard?
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It gets better if she can write really big. It's small, precise movements that are the problem.
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It's not what I was taught.
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Well no.
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Totally appalling that they are willing to just ignore something that foundational.
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Indeed. I'd be tempted to start CCing ofstead too. That will probably have an effect.
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the fuck?
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I can! I can! <3 Maths and sciences (except Biology. That's witchcraft)
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