My LD son failed freshman year

brantly
Fri, 07 Apr 2023 19:19:05 +0000

I just came back to say again, nothing else matters until he can read fluently and understand what he’s is reading without difficulty and without anxiety about approaching it.

His reading and reading comprehension difficulties will be a secret shame his whole life and will will affect his self-esteem until he gets that in order.

Do you think it’s a possibility that he’d conflicted about being proactive to get what he needs and about getting ahead because it will require reading and understanding? Yes, he wants help and he wants to be “normal,” but doing so will require confronting his reading difficulties head on. And that might be stopping him. He’s been able to sort of veer around it in high school. But not now.

This may be a tough question to answer, but here it is: Is he functionally literate? Can he read and write to solve real-life problems? Like finding on the college’s website and reading about what he has to do to get help. Like reading the professor’s instructions and being able to understand and follow through with them. Like writing a cogent email to a professor or to the special services department.

Further, has anyone been enabling him to veer around these real-life issues? Does he subtly ask other to read and explain things to him? Does he avoid reading instructions and just say, “I know what to do.” Is it possible that in HS teachers (or parents) explained things to him to the point that he avoided reading?