Slow Motion Writting

Sometimes people with autism think much faster than people without autism. Jane has pretty terrible handwriting, she has a great imagination so its a shame that no one can read what she writes. When she unscrambles words in seconds, I began thinking about how quickly her autistic brain works. I noticed that she is writing way faster than any of the other kids. She gets all of her work done in half the time. So this week I told her to slow her writing down so we can read it. She said "Do you mean write in slow motion?" "Yes!" Now I just remind her to write in slow motion before she starts and her handwriting is beautiful. The occupational therapist was try all sorts of different pencil grips and pencil wrist slings to get her writing under control when all she needed was to write in slow motion.