<p>I think DS is very likely a visual learner. That may be a reason why he did not have much trouble in orgo.</p>
<p>I remember that when we sent him to a preschool, he was really very “behind” in his English skill. After a short few months, he somehow managed to decode the names of all of his classmates (on the back of the chair for each preschooler, there is a name tag, likely to encourage the preschooler to recognize his/her own name - it was somewhat funny that occasionally a kid from an English speaking family would ask DS, who was not as fluent in spoken English as him/her, what chair is his/hers.) One preschool teacher even accused us of coaching him written English but we really did not. Our only concern at that time was he needed to catch up in his spoken English. (Playing “Wee Sing” and “Hank the cow dog”, etc., as often as we could. Those audio tapes and those Disney video tapes were his main “teachers” before he was sent to a preschool, which was only 4 hours a week.) We were busy in taking him to all story telling sessions for very young children offered in all public libraries in our city. We even hired older siblings or mom of his classmates for many years - in order for him to have more exposure to spoken English. At one time, we hired 3 family members of the family of DS’s kindergarten classmate at the same time in order to maximize the number of hours. (What English-speaking families take it for granted cost us money for many many years! How would we know that, years later, he is relatively so good at verbal - SAT and MCAT!)</p>