Lexia literacy program- Y7

[Thisismynewname123]

My Y7 dd has an EHCP. I received an email last week from the SENCO saying that she was due to begin a literacy intervention group this term. As she is now not at school (by choice. A place is available to her) they have signed her up to the Lexia literacy program to do at home. Has anyone used this and have any feedback? She currently has a full school timetable to live lessons, so will need to do the extra literacy work in her free time. She did the bench marking section of it yesterday and it took over an hour. The program recommends about 2 hours work over the week, which, for a child who struggles with motivation and concentration anyway due to ADHD, is a huge ask. Does anyone have any experience of Lexia and (and any suggestions on how to convince a highly unmotivated 11 year old to do this regularly, when there is no class teacher chasing it up!).

If DD was in school what lesson would she have been withdrawn from in order to complete the intervention? I would ask that the same applies even though she is at home.

I don't know, as this is the first real intervention since she started secondary school. In primary, these things would always take place during the most "fun" lesson, and that always upset her!

Could you suggest DD is excused from a non core subject that she is unlikely to continue to GCSE (out of that group of subjects I would pick the subject she likes the least)? In many schools it would be MFL she would be withdrawn from.

Did you pursue the Lexia literacy program any further?