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It is important to make sure there is no underlying LD. Just making them fail, go to Sat school, etc is not helping if they do not get the tools needed to overcome the LD issues. It would be like asking you to drive a car without glasses when your eyesight is 20/300, and then punishing you for running into things. Eventually you would quit trying. We went down those paths until S1 almost committed suicide. Then got the right testing done, found the LD, got the tutor and helped find ways around it. And he had been tested as gifted at an early age. Just made it worse. When he got the right help, he eventually graduated from major university with honors, and on his own. But after he learned new tools and coping techniques.
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