How to help with handwriting -hyper mobility?

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Attended parents evening yesterday and teacher told me ds is reluctant to write, needs prompting and lots of encouragement. He writes very little and gives up easily and has trouble forming certain letters correctly.

He has hyper-mobility in his shoulders, arms, wrists and fingers.

When he does write his handwriting seems to be quite neat for a 6 year old, but he writes very little and avoids it where possible.

Im assuming he finds it quite tiring or perhaps uncomfortable.

Anyone else have the same problem and what can be put in place to help?

On the hypermoblity website is a score chart I know for ds they did look at how far his knee bent back when had leg straiht also how far it would move to the side

Then looked how far ds ankles moved they bend up so his toes touch his shins plus they can turn almost 180 and roll over so walks on side of his foot but your ds does not need be that flexiable to be classed as hypermobile

Have they talked about ds learning to touch type even now I find it easier to type than write

The hyper-mobility in his arms is quite severe i think, his shoulders can touch at the back, his elbow bends backwards, wrist the back of his hand can touch his arm and fingers bend backwards to touch his arm as well.

But he has never complained of aches or pains in his arms or hands, just his legs!

He also loves to draw and can spend ages drawing. So didnt realise he had a problem until parents evening.

Although he is slow and struggles to get dressed/undressed and hates doing PE, i thought it was more about sensory than mobility until now. He says the sensation of pulling and pushing his head/arms etc through clothes 'burns his skin' so thought he was just reluctant for those reasons.

At parents evening, everyone only gets 10 minutes, so didnt have much time to talk about it. Although it didnt dawn on me until leaving parents evening that his teacher is not aware that he even has hyper-mobility. I assumed that this info would have been passed onto her, but it obviously hasnt.

At the moment he needs TA to sit with him and encouraging him, otherwise he wont write at all.

So literally only just discovered problem in school.

AN yeah you think things would be passed on.
Wonder if they thought it was a advoiding sensory thing.any luck phsyio ot can help if ds will tolerate it playing with playdough putty is good for strenthing the fingers

also peg boards or beads .ds has a big ball he lies on that I then encourage him to roll back and forth on using his arms

Phoenix, hopefully OT will come up with some suggestions for school.

Most things tend to get left to the parents though, i already do 30 minutes sensory therapy, 20 minutes OT therapy, 15 minutes SALT every day. Not enough hours in the day!

OT has replied to my email.

She stated that she has seen ds's handwriting and thought it was age appropriate, but that the teacher had told her that it was slow and required lots of effort from ds and she would be making 'general' recommendations to the school with regards to hand writing.

Aches and pains in his legs, her advice is to speak to my GP! (i have and they have advice pain killers)

Surely this is OT's area.