As a parent it was very hard to hear my child had a learning disability. The first thought that crossed my mind was how will he cope with this, how will I help him to cope, will he have the right support sysytem to overcome the obstacles set in fron of him. I had so many questions and not enough answers. I needed support myself so I could get my son the resources he needed because clearly his school was unaquipt to help me deal with everything my son needed.
At the age of four I noticed something was different about my son. The preschool my son attended taught the children what they would be learning in kindergard starting at the age of three. At the age of four I spoke to one of my child’s teachers about evaulating him. An Individual …show more content…
His vocabulary and ability to grasp concepts is outstanding. My son is emotionally mature and he is very aware of himself. However, doing homework with my son is a struggle every night. My son brings homework home Monday through Thursday and we both dread it. Each week he comes home with math daily, twenty- two spelling words, seven vocabulary words, and reading for thirty minutes each night. So Thursday night was no different.WE started at 4:30pm I started with the most difficult which is usually the spelling words he will be tested on. I started with the previous fifthteen words as a review from Monday through wednsaday and then proceeded to the last five. After I reviewed the twenty words with him verbally we practiced him words on a dry erase board as a mock technique similariy to spelling test at school. Like many other dyslexic children he commonly confuses the letter “B” with the letter “D” while writting and has a hard time sounding out the words ”Overcoming Dyslexia” (2003). Together we look at the words he get wrong. I write the words on a flash card and have him trace the word with his finger while saying the word. He repeats this motion for about two minutes and then we proceed to the next word. We repeated all twenty words on the dry erase board about ten time before he was about to correctly spell eightteen of the twenty words. After this I gave him a five minute break. Next we looked at
At the age of four I noticed something was different about my son. The preschool my son attended taught the children what they would be learning in kindergard starting at the age of three. At the age of four I spoke to one of my child’s teachers about evaulating him. An Individual …show more content…
His vocabulary and ability to grasp concepts is outstanding. My son is emotionally mature and he is very aware of himself. However, doing homework with my son is a struggle every night. My son brings homework home Monday through Thursday and we both dread it. Each week he comes home with math daily, twenty- two spelling words, seven vocabulary words, and reading for thirty minutes each night. So Thursday night was no different.WE started at 4:30pm I started with the most difficult which is usually the spelling words he will be tested on. I started with the previous fifthteen words as a review from Monday through wednsaday and then proceeded to the last five. After I reviewed the twenty words with him verbally we practiced him words on a dry erase board as a mock technique similariy to spelling test at school. Like many other dyslexic children he commonly confuses the letter “B” with the letter “D” while writting and has a hard time sounding out the words ”Overcoming Dyslexia” (2003). Together we look at the words he get wrong. I write the words on a flash card and have him trace the word with his finger while saying the word. He repeats this motion for about two minutes and then we proceed to the next word. We repeated all twenty words on the dry erase board about ten time before he was about to correctly spell eightteen of the twenty words. After this I gave him a five minute break. Next we looked at