Too true, Froggy!
We've just had a uni student and 8 of his friends to camp in our garden ... I first met this lad at 8/9 years old in the first class I taught and he was lovely, bright, articulate, but with the most appalling handwriting and organisation of his written work on the page.
I did quite a bit of work with him and made some 'breakthroughs' and he passed on and then, a few years later, turned up at Scouts! He joined my District Scout Hiking Group and then, of course, he passed on ...
Thanks to Facebook he found me again and we chatted, and our little family dropped in for a cup of tea when travelling across England to visit relatives. I extended the open invitation to come and camp and 'bring a few friends' (not really expecting 9 teenagers!) and he pulled it all together and - in Scouting speak - organised a very nice little camp.
One of the things he told me while he was over here was that, at University, ten years after I taught him, he had been diagnosed with Dysgraphia ....
I had to tell him I was thrilled! Not of him, obviously, porr soul to have an additional challenge in life ... but for me ... ten years earlier I had identified the problem and worked with him on strategues etc. and now - not only was he at Uni and doing well - but he has also had a formal recognition of his difficulties. I might not have had the terminology in 2000 but I did recognise the difficulties!
GREAT! To have a glimpse, two glmpses in that boy's case (Scouts and Social) at what a child can become once they have left your classroom for the great unknown.
Helen