handwriting

[EAMom]

Weird question...when our dd writes she initially starts at the appropriate left hand side of the page, but with each subsequent line, the left margin drifts a little to the right. Everything ends up getting very crowded and squished on the right hand side of the paper.

 

The educational specialist said she had never seen this b-4 except in cases of brain damage (!!). She didn't do this a year ago (before PANDAS). Does anybody elses child do this?

[bronxmom2]

Mine does. Though in general he refuses to write, so I see very few "subsequent" lines.

[michele]

I don't know why she would say that about brain damage. My son has viusal perceptial motor issues and line spacing and margins are really a challenge. From what I've been reading in Tony Atwood's book on AS this is a common symptom in asperger kids. Although PANDAS kids have this also and TS.

 

My son's words are all crammed together and have very little spacing between. He also cahnges upper and lower case within the sentence.

I agree getting them to write and get ideas down is the first challenge. Then it looks so messy and is spaced so funny.

 

Mine does. Though in general he refuses to write, so I see very few "subsequent" lines.

[Suzan]

I just ran across this post from March. I have been wondering about hand writing since dd6's hand writing has gotten so bad. If she's in a good state, she can have really nice printing (letter formation and spacing) for about 2 lines then it starts to fall apart so fast until the end is all backwards or misformed letters.... Should this hopefully improve on antibiotics or is intervention by an OT recommended for these set backs due to PANDAS?

 

Susan

[Lacy]

I just ran across this post from March. I have been wondering about hand writing since dd6's hand writing has gotten so bad. If she's in a good state, she can have really nice printing (letter formation and spacing) for about 2 lines then it starts to fall apart so fast until the end is all backwards or misformed letters.... Should this hopefully improve on antibiotics or is intervention by an OT recommended for these set backs due to PANDAS?

 

Susan

 

Our DD's handwriting seems to follow the same trend... good days and on antibiotics, handwriting is great (for her age)... bad days or not on antibiotics - terrible sloppy handwriting. DD is very artistic (takes after Daddy - I don't have a creative bone in my body), and you can even see the same results in her pictures - the quality seems to vary depending on whether she's in the "waxing or waning" mode of her symptoms.

[mom md]

I know they phrasev "brain damage" was upsetting but it makes sense to me that you would see this with PANDAS which is an encephalitis. It is brain damage but luckily can be reversed if treated. Very interesting. It just shows that when the brain is involved the symptons you see is a mixed bag.

[LMama]

I know they phrasev "brain damage" was upsetting but it makes sense to me that you would see this with PANDAS which is an encephalitis. It is brain damage but luckily can be reversed if treated. Very interesting. It just shows that when the brain is involved the symptons you see is a mixed bag.

Is PANDAS brain damage, and how can it be reversed? Antibiotics? My son has been recently diagnosed a yr ago, and recovered, but now we have another suspected case of strep so we are seeing some slight behaviors start to crop up. How can we "reverse" this damage???