bird by bird

Can your child tell an amazing story? Talk your ear off? Recite facts that begin “Did you know…” for whole car rides? But then when it comes time to write, does he stare at a blank page? Or does she compose sentences that seem super rudimentary? 

Have you been to one of those open houses where all the kids’ writing is posted on the wall and  you hate it but you have a sinking feeling when you realize all the other kids wrote a full page and your kid wrote, what is that? Three sentences? 

Students with a deficit in written expression have trouble getting their ideas from their head, to the page. Sometimes they think non-linearly, or in images. Sometimes anxiety is at play and they evaluate each idea and toss it out before it even makes the page. Sometimes, there are so many ideas, coming so quickly, that it just seems impossible to choose one: so the page stays blank until the bell rings for the next class, or it’s time to eat dinner whether homework is done or not.  

In Dysgraphia Intervention, we work on writing composition by learning sentence frames to hand ideas onto, improving writing speed and efficiency, and organizing ideas from non-linear mapping strategies to linear essay formats. We’ll build writing, taking it “bird by bird.”