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Look into the possibility that he has dysgraphia or agraphia.

Both those learning disabilities cluster with ADD and ADHD.

And ask his teachers if he can use a computer to write his assignments. That helped my son a lot - in fact after some time writing papers on the computer his handwriting is much improved.

ADHD is associated with fine motor and visual motor integration problems. ADHD is also associated with a verbal IQ which greater than performance IQ. If I had to guess, I'd say that's because most of the subtests on the performance part of the IQ tests test fine motor and visual motor ability.

I am unsure if dysgraphia = visual motor integration problems (perhaps the latter can cause the former?).

I do have visual motor integration problems and I was diagnosed ADHD, which is one of the reasons I decided to find this stuff out[all records of that have been destroyed, and if captured I will disavow any knowledge of those records :) ].

My handwriting is pretty messy, and I can't draw very well, if at all. To make up for that though, I have a pretty good visual memory.

As an example of that, I left my old car partially disassembled in the garage for over 8 months.

I finally got sick of it being in there (plus my brother wanted to buy it off of me) and so I put it back together without once referring to the manual (except for the torque specs on the bolts). There were probably 30-40 parts to deal with, and I got them all right back where they came from.

I had a tremendous problem with my handwriting while in school. By the time I'd come to the end of a sentence I'd be bored with it become distracted and would scribble the rest of the words. Word problems in math though easily solved were usually not done because by the time I wrote out the question (demanded by the teacher) I would have lost focus. Even signing my name even now without just smearing the last few letters takes extra effort. Using a computer REALLY helps as it tends to be a repetative action and much much easier to set focus on for the ADHD strickened