learning block year 12

[spratsmum]

DS 1 is struggling with AS,s he just doesn't seem to be able to take in the information and learn it. He works hard but going nowhere. I am waiting for the Sen Co to get back to me. He has ASD .
DS 2 age 13 is"lazy".He has a slight visual impairment and gets very tired. He is under performing. There is a strong family history of dyslexia. But they have different signs to me. I was labelled lazy at school but as an adult I can see I wasn't .It was dyslexia related.
Not quite sure what to do because their school difficulties are attributed to their disabilities. I don't think this is the full story.
BTW name change or I would out myself

How is DS1 going about learning? I believe I have ASD (awaiting results of assessment at age 60+). Luckily for me I liked learning for learning's sake, so was a good student.

Looking back, however, I think that I developed a particular learning style (partly incalcated by school) of writing everything out by hand, as well as reading it. Quite time intensive, but effective for me.

Since those days I have had dealings with people who are interested in learning styles. These vary hugely, so suggest DS1 tries to get the info in using different senses. Visual - reading, diagrams, memory maps. Auditory - reading out loud; telling you about a subject Kineasthetic (ie using the body) writing stuff out like I did, acting stuff out. See what works for him.

I imagine he is interested in the subjects he's doing?

Thanks for the reply. He tends to spend a lot of time making notes without questioning his understanding.
I am wondering if both are also dyslexic

Might be worth checking out the NeuroLinguistic Programming spelling strategy - if they are using an auditory method, this doesn't work well with English (and is why my DF once wrote 'cheeze' for 'cheese'!) You would need someone qualified to teach them the visual strategy which good spellers use - it only takes an hour or so and can be very effective. And wouldn't cost much. If you are in NE or NW I can recommend people.

But some dyslexia isn't helped by this - the sort where the letters seem to float about when reading iiuc. For that, I have heard something about coloured lenses helping.

This may sound a bit woo (and might well be poohpoohed by traditional dyslexia specialists) but IME NLP can be very helpful for all sorts of things.

Thanks, l will look into that