BigAppleDaddy

Thanks AnonyMom

Since S was tested near the end of th school year, our evaluator is away for most of the summer and we won't be seeing him, I understand now, until sometimes mid-August at the earliest. I have forwarded the results off to his new school and we will meet with them before school starts.

"But what I'm suggesting is that it might be good to find a way to pull him out of the kind of lock-step, negative math class experience he's already had, and that he has to have feelings about, and approach math in a new way..." Hey, from your mouth to God's ear.

The new schiool has already seen the evaluation, interviewed S for admission, asked him about his previous experience, so they should be well-versed in who he is by the time we meet. Their classes, for every subject, are small and non-traditional, and not limited to kids in any particular grade, so the being stuck with younger kids thing shouldn't be a problem.

EVen with his negative experiences in math, however, he remains fascinated by science and sometimes thinks of a business career. Go figure. All his processing and working memory skills are, according to tests, in the 'average" or category or higher, for what its worth. But again, I cannot be more specific about how this, or his reading speed, can affect him without some advice from the woman who tested him.

Again, thanks so much for the advice re testing and I will check out the Stanford program and other computer type offerings in the meantime so as to have something to suggest with the people we meet with next month. I will keep you posted.

And yes, I have no hope that he can catch up with the restof his classmates and be grade level in one month, I am just hoping to start the process so that perhaps he doesn't stay years behind them.