<p>OP-- I’m sure that after several exhausting years trying to help your son, and now several days worth of suggestions on this thread, you are about ready to throw in the towel, pour yourself a glass of wine and decide your done with the Educational Industrial Complex.</p>
<p>But I want to tell you (you can believe me or not) that your problem isn’t algebra. There is not a single job that can support a young man that doesn’t require strong reading skills. Not a one. Unless your son plans to become a migrant worker, he needs to get back on track with his reading. It’s not about reading novels and knowing what rape is; it’s about showing up on day one at virtually any job at a big company and being seated in front of a computer terminal to begin training. The days of having a stand-up instructor training the new hires is coming to an end. It’s one big Word document, broken up by some very wordy Powerpoints and a couple of dense spreadsheets. </p>
<p>Forget about the math. Forget about how quick he is and how gifted he is, and what morons we ALL are on this thread for telling you he needs a neuropsych eval. Whatever his future career plans are (besides major league ball player) he needs to get his reading back on track. He doesn’t ever need to be a person who wants to pick up a novel in his spare time. But unless he can sit down with a dense article (think Economist or the Atlantic) and read it, understand what he’s read (not skimming, but read for comprehension) you are going to find his frustration level in HS and beyond completely off the charts.</p>
<p>There are kids who sadly have had accidents which have damaged their frontal lobe- and the parents are so grateful that the kid is alive that the issue of reading, and being on grade level, and getting into college or getting a job is moot- as it should be. By your child is healthy- thank god- and so you are lucky that with a comprehensive diagnosis you can get him back on track.</p>
<p>There are kids with significant learning disabilities who have a phenomenal ability somewhere else- artistic, mathematical, etc. But unless your kid is the next Baryshnikov, he still needs to graduate from HS knowing how to read. And not skimming, and not remembering something from a movie- reading.</p>