My 13 year old may have dysgraphia

My kid was a late reader. Once she got the hang of it, she was voracious, and her reading comprehension is good. She’s 13 and in 8th grade.Her handwriting and spelling have always been atrocious. I thought maybe she was just a bit lazy. But she does kind of write like a little kid, even at the ripe old age of 13. If she’s really in a rush, she’ll write “hre” instead of “her,” for example, or she’ll use “writeing” “righting” and “riting” in the same paragraph.At the parent teacher conference, her English teacher asked for a handwriting sample to give to the reading specialist. He says her intelligence is too disparate from her writing, and he thinks she has dysgraphia, which is a branch of dyslexia.It makes perfect sense. Her father has dyslexia. As do members of my family. I feel a bit guilty that I haven’t looked into this before. She makes good grades, so I kept thinking she’d eventually figure it out. But now that she’s close to high school, she needs to get better about taking notes and writing essays. She loathes writing and excels in math and science.We’re thinking of having a private assessment done rather than wait for the school to decide to do an assessment. I’ve brought up mild concerns before, and have been told that because she’s an A student, she doesn’t raise any flags, even though her writing is terrible.How can I help her? If she does have dysgraphia, is 8th grade too late to make significant improvement? So far she relies on typing her work and using spell check. But can she actually get better and spelling and handwriting? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2zryxRW