v v rare I do this - usually change my name but wondered whether you wise old owls can help me with this one...
My eight year old son has terrible motor skills and it's resulted in his handwriting being appalling. I mean really really bad - poor fella - he's left handed, and holds the pen/cil awkwardly and hardly puts any pressure on the pen at all. We've tried pen grips but they don't seem to hve worked (although I'd be willing to give them another go - he is quite impatient). TBH I haven't done an awful lot about it up until now as I've just thought he's still young and it'll come but it's really starting to effect his work now and his confidence. He's really bright at a recent parents evening all his teachers say it's starting to become a problem - not just cos of the poor presentation but also because it takes him so long to do the work on paper that he loses interest. Has anyone else had this problem? Any tips? Am going to see the school's sn teacher to see if she can organise some one-to-one with him and getting some special paper/pen grips home from the teachers - is it just a matter of practising and practising or is there anything else we could be doing?
Many thanks in advance for any advice.