Does whatever a spider pig does."
I think my 13 year old will be okay. We’re putting him in a private Christian school for high school, and I think that will make a huge difference. It’s just a higher level of achievement than in our local public school.
Wish me luck with trying to get my 11 year old special needs daughter into college and through it. If she wasn’t good at math, then we wouldn’t try. However, I just think that a kid who tests in the 95-98% on standardized math tests should go to collge. She is skipping a year of math this next year. Most of her troubles show up as her being slow with writing and reading. Slow reading is an easy fix with audio books. I don’t quite know what to do about slow writing. There are some software programs that may help.
It’s an interesting topic. How does IQ (and all it’s components) affect learning?
I’ve worked with people who have problems writing and have found some techniques that work.
Engage your daughter in a conversation about the topic. Ask her some questions and discuss the answers with her. Then ask her the questions again and get her to respond orally.
Once she has formulated the problem/answer in her head and is able to verbalize it, putting it in writing is much easier.
If writing it is still difficult try tape recording her response - but don’t let her know beforehand that you are recording her.
After you try that process a few times, I guarantee you, she will find writing easier.
What you are describing is called dysgraphia. it is a specific learning disability, and audio books are not the way around it. The best thing for your daughter is make her read, practice, practice, practice.
The only way around the slow writing is a computer, but her typing probably won’t be very fast either. It is really a fine motor skill problem, and maybe even a little dyslexia. Does her hand writing look like a second grader and combine printing with hand writing?
Both my husband and my son have it. My husband was never diagnosed because they didn’t know about it in those days, but his parents sent him to a boarding school, where he was sent to supervised study hall, every night. He learned to like reading, and I think that it changed the course of his life.