Need help with NY 8th grade course placement "twice exceptional child". (Long story, sorry)

[austinmshauri]

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OK, these last few responses are really tiring, especially when people have not fully read all of my posts due to length….Honestly, there is some serious comprehension issues going on here! The imminent issue is not getting another evaluation.

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<p>I think many people have read the posts and I think they’re comprehending the situation very well. I’m sorry you’re not getting the answer you want, a cut and dried “leave him in Algebra” or “move him to 8th grade math.” A simple answer seems impossible in this situation. Whichever recommendation people give has to have a reason behind it that takes into account this child’s previous academic record. The reason for letting him stick it out or move him depends both on the reason he’s having a problem and what your goals are for him. </p>

<p>I think what’s troubling people is that you seem to believe your son has a disability and, although you’ve taken steps to help him, you stop just shy of a complete examination. And you seem compelled to force him through an accelerated program when he isn’t effectively completing the regular programming for his age group.</p>

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At that point I thought he had some form of dyslexia or dysgraphia.

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His English teacher was particularly brutal to him, brought up his disability in front of the class.

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Additionally, let me be clear and point out that he has the word decoding ability of a college student. That means that when he reads aloud, he appears to do so very fluently…When his disability was revealed to me, it was so profound that I can’t believe he ever read aloud in school between grades 6-8. I guess my question there would be “What exactly were the reading and special ed teachers doing with him then”?

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I actually think that the Gow School (is the one for Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities near Buffalo, NY?) may be appropriate, and they now take days students and are only 45 minutes away (or you can board).

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I am aware that if this reading/verbal comprehension issue continues, he will not be able to manage the foreign language requirement in high school, and I will be compelled to get an IEP to get him exempted so he can still get a Regents diploma.

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He has a reading issue because of visual convergence insufficiency that remained undiagnosed and untreated until he was 13 years old!.. But yes, there is a “reading issue” in that my son is still trying to get by just on listening to class lecture. Which he cannot do at this level.

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Do I think my son has some sort of learning or continuing disability? He sure has seems to a good deal of the time, and it did not seem as if the vision therapy alone helped. But I also didn’t really see him try to read after the vision therapy. Or is it that my has trouble because he never read or applied himself and now that the work is sophisticated, he can’t keep up?

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Additionally, just because I was here to get help on my son’s math placement, which frankly has not been addressed, does not mean that I am somehow ignorant as to surrounding issues. Getting a “diagnosis” only means that I get another “diagnosis”.

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<p>Given these statements, I’d drop him into 8th grade math so he has a better chance of forming a solid math foundation for high school. I’d also work on the “reading/verbal comprehension issue.” It will hold him back from much more than the high school foreign language requirement. Blossom, Thumper1, and others had some excellent suggestions. I would seriously consider them as well.</p>