<p>No additional insights, but just want to wish you good luck (and fortitude) as you move forward in helping your son.</p>
<p>Mostly bookmarking this for later because this could SO be my son. He went from a 2.2 GPA to a 4.0, in 11th grade without a language,( although that was not the only thing that changed). Nothing failed, but it just took up SO much of his effort. We are narrowing down his college list by seriously considering language requirements.</p>
<p>A disability could mean that he gets additional test time, or some other considerations.
I’m not saying he doesn’t have a relevant LD, but is the goal to prove it just to get out of the language requirement? That’s not the goal of accommodations offices, and gives them a bad rap. I’d really consider having him tested for various LDs, in order to help him overall in college, and know how he struggles so he can find someone who can help. Also, someone who can teach him how to learn. He very well could be sitting there for hours, occasionally picking up a vocabulary card. Effective learning and “studying” are often very different things. Could he switch majors, instead of transfer?</p>
<p>“If your son has mastered spoken and written English, he can master communicating in a second language.”</p>
<p>+1. Good luck.</p>
<p>There is no such thing as a learning disability specific to learning a second language. Children who have trouble with learning a first language also have trouble with a second language- they have oral language disorders. </p>
<p>Learning a 2nd language requires attention, memory, organization, repetition and motivation…lots of practice time. Kids can have LD which affect some of these areas…but they would need to show more global signs of an LD to pursue a diagnosis and exemption…</p>