Boys and Reading

[rosie76]

Hello, does anyone out there have a boy struggling with reading?? My ds1 is nearly 7 and just finds it so hard.

Fizzbuzz - agreed lol!

It took my husband and I together against the head, SENCO and my son's class teacher, to persuade them to take notice of his assessment which had cost us £300, and get them to agree to help him- he got 20 minutes once a week for 2 terms with the Senco- after that we paid for tutoring. They even tried to refute the assessment, written by an ed psych, more qualified than any of them!

It is disgraceful, but the bottom line is money- until special needs teaching is ring fenced for children with dyslexia, schools can spend their money however they want. Most private schools employ SpLD teachers who teach children on a withdrawal basis, but ti s almost unheard of now in state schools. There is huge unemployment amongst people like me- speciaist teachers- because we havebeen replaced by TAs who work under the guidance of non-specialist teachers. (Nothing personal here against any teachers!)

On a more humorous note - the spellings that Rosie76's ds did "word spelt differently that sound the same, eg poor/paw
stalk/stork" couldn't be done in Scotland, as they don't sound the same here! Both the vowel sound and waht in Scotland would be the vocalised "R" differentiate them!

Pity the poor child in England who has Scottish parents helping him with this exercise!

Ok I am going to go in and ask his teacher tomorrow, I notice on one of the dyslexia web sites you can have a free consultation that's about half and hour to see if they think an assesments a good idea. I'l see what they say and take it from there.

Rosie- just make sure that the person you speak to is a trained teacher, and not a volunteer- many volunteers know a lot, but they often don't have in-depth knowledge or training.