Touch typing

Aidan's OT and the school's previous SENCO both felt that it was likely he would never get the full knack fo the writing thing. So we had two great suggestions:

1 - focus on non cursive writing, so he will be able to fill out forms as an adult, lets be honest in his lifetime when else is he really ever going to need to pick up a pen.

2- focus on teaching him to touch type, so he can more easily get all those thoughts out and recorded.

As someone who is a bit old fashioned I love a bit of beautiful penmanship. However its clear that the progress with handwriting is painfully slow, so there does come a point when we need to focus our energies a little on the priority areas.

Strangely when he copies non cursive letters his letter formation is just lovely, unlike the spider scrawl of his cursive letters. We just now need to keep pushing him to get to a point where he can write these letters withour copying them.

At the moment we are using Typing tourament with him, which went down great for the first week or so. We are trying to get him to do 5 or so minutes every night. I also have to admit that we are using shameless bribery, with the promise of £100 if he completes every step of that program ( no we are not rich, but hopefully the money will appear by the time he eventually gets there)

Sadly the usual anger and frustration has started with the touch typing, as he has got to a stage now where he needs to remember how to do more than just 5 or 6 letters, and he is finding it really hard. I think he has been attempting the same test  and drills for about 2 weeks now. I just keep telling myself that the more he practices then the more information is going in, even if it annoys the hell out of him.