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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 381675" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>With his problems with handwriting, get him assessed by an Occupational Therapist for hypermobility issues. That can cause a lot of pain and if untreated, generally leads to early onset (in teens or younger, even) osteoarthritis. Use of computer can help. With writing tasks difficult child 3 would expend the vast bulk of his mental energy on mentally calculating the least number of pen strokes needed for the answer. Once we started him using a computer to draft his responses, he was much freer to express himself, and his answers were much more complex because he could say a lot more without pain.</p><p></p><p>BYW, it is my increasing, if anecdotal, observation that there is a strong link between hypermobile joints and high-functioning autism/Asperger's (or similar). I have not been able to confirm this, but I do keep tripping over kids who have both.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 381675, member: 1991"] With his problems with handwriting, get him assessed by an Occupational Therapist for hypermobility issues. That can cause a lot of pain and if untreated, generally leads to early onset (in teens or younger, even) osteoarthritis. Use of computer can help. With writing tasks difficult child 3 would expend the vast bulk of his mental energy on mentally calculating the least number of pen strokes needed for the answer. Once we started him using a computer to draft his responses, he was much freer to express himself, and his answers were much more complex because he could say a lot more without pain. BYW, it is my increasing, if anecdotal, observation that there is a strong link between hypermobile joints and high-functioning autism/Asperger's (or similar). I have not been able to confirm this, but I do keep tripping over kids who have both. Marg [/QUOTE]
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