Dyslexia, full disclosure?

momofthreeboys
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:32:40 +0000

Oh yes…the atrocious spelling…we’ve all been there and seen that. My son didn’t figure out how to start a sentence and end with a period until middle school or really how to spell. He turned in a 3 page paper (long paper for 7th grade) that had a capital letter at the start of page 1 and a period at the end of page 3 with very creative spelling during the beginning of 7th grade. We (teachers and H and I) were all so focused through elementary school on getting him to be able to read that we never really got around to teaching him to write and spell. Whoopsie. We all had a good laugh about that at parent-teacher conferences.