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 newmanlj
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Spelling issues
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 11:11 AM |
Hi everyone!
My son was diagnosed with learning disabilities starting in 2nd grade. We took him to the All Kinds of Minds center in NC when he was in 4th or 5th grade for Demystification. They found him to have a pattern recognition and awareness disorder. This makes anything using a pattern difficult for him--which includes math and spelling. He has very poor handwriting, which makes his math and spelling worse. My son is very bright in other areas (reading, science and history). He is one of only a few students in our county that is both LD and also in the Gifted program.
Things had been going well until this year--his freshman year in high school. In middle school, there were no spelling tests, so we assumed that would be the same for high school. I don't know whether the lack of spelling tests was based on the middle school's interpretation of his IEP or just the way his class did things. Anyways, now that he is having spelling tests again, he is failing them miserably, and his ego (which is already suffering as any 15 year old's does) is taking a hit. He spells all the words incorrectly but gets all the definitions correct. He has accomodations for spelling, but his English teacher says these do not apply during tests.
We have an IEP meeting on Dec 17th and I am planning to ask for spelling accomodations that pertain to his tests, or at least some sort of modification to the test. Does anyone have any ideas what I could suggest at the IEP meeting? In the past the teachers in our public school system have been very easy to work with. Our son seems to have a good repore with his teachers, they can tell he tries hard, which seems to endear him to them. But high school seems to be a whole new beast, the teachers appear a lot tougher and reluctant to take parental input. . . (maybe it just seems that way???).
Let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks for your time! |
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