We had our 6 month IEP meeting yesterday and I got some troubling news from ds's sp ed teacher. She said that she is really looking for them to change is IEP from being listed as severe learning delays to severe learning disabilities. She stated he is just not getting phonics and word recognition. He has been trying to learn the same 5 sight words since the beginning of the school year. He cannot seem to remember them. He can remember the order of certain letters, in other words he makes good grades on his spelling test but he has to have a lot of guidance to do it. He just can't get the letters to come together to form the words when it comes to reading them. Does anyone know a program maybe a free one online that I can use to help him learn? I am not giving up on him and neither is his teacher but she said she does want me to be aware of the difficulties he is having. Oh and he is in the first grade (7yrs old).
Cindy Jean
Cindy, this can be a good thing if it gets him better help with his reading skills. There are many different levels to Special Education services and therapies (http://www.wrightslaw.com/) out there. I know that I had troube with phonics because there are so many different rules to them which made it hard to remember all of them at times. You might want to read up on http://www.ldonline.org/.
BUMP, I'm not sure but I know that Michigans Macomb County site has some free learning tools for Learning Disabilities, Early Intervention, etc--- I found it looking for a number for my friend, I haven't tried to download anything yet though
There are great videos on youtube that teach english to kids from japan and such. They are cute because they have songs and pictures to go with them, they really help my daughter, and she doesn't even realize she's learning.
Hugs mama! I have no experience with that as my son is nowhere near this level..I wish you the best though:)
that is good a good thing my dd is going through the same thing. so just keep and contact with them and help you're dd out has much has you can. my dd is 7 and 1st grade
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Thanks for the advice everyone. I guess I can see what you mean by being a good thing. But I broke down crying at the meeting. It was just so hard to hear how your child has to struggle with something so hard when it comes so easy to most kids. All the other kids in his class can read whole books and he can't even read a whole sentence. I am just so worried about what kind of future he will have. What if he never learns to read??? I know I am being negative, and still not giving up, but the thought is still there.
Cindy Jean
Do you guys have an iPad? Does the school have one? I would attempt push to make the school buy him one. There are SO many apps that teach letters and sounds. If you "like" the Technologies in Education page on fb, they have free apps everyday.
Quoting cindyjean68:Thanks for the advice everyone. I guess I can see what you mean by being a good thing. But I broke down crying at the meeting. It was just so hard to hear how your child has to struggle with something so hard when it comes so easy to most kids. All the other kids in his class can read whole books and he can't even read a whole sentence. I am just so worried about what kind of future he will have. What if he never learns to read??? I know I am being negative, and still not giving up, but the thought is still there.
Elementary school visit + pic
- cindyjean68
on Mar. 1, 2013 at 9:24 AM