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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 570158" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thanks for your input.</p><p>Well, the French idea is that children should be reading fluently by the end of the equivelent of your second grade, not before, so I don't think massive pressure is on. I'd love for it all to be normal but if I'm honest with myself, I have to say that there have been signs for so long that something is not quite right in terms of J's learning certain things... just in the sense that it takes him SO long to acquire what other children acquire easily and quickly - eg colours, days of the week, numbers, letters, etc. He is definitely the slowest in his class for all that. This despite him being bright and intelligent. It's silly he's not seeing a speech therapist; I tried to make contact with her last summer but never could get hold of and when I finally did in the autumn, she was all booked up as far as the eye could see... no other speech therapist has any availability around here. There are alternative methods here, but you need to find people able to teach them... I suppose we just struggle on for the moment, with J being slow and "behind" the class. </p><p>No, I know it doesn't have to be a fight, susiestar <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> It is a fight when I try to do his homework with him during the week... he's bored with it and I think he's really exhausted mentally in the evening after school. But yesterday, for example, I did a couple of pages of a kind of French revision book I bought and, with lots of encouragement and praise, he really got into it - demanded to do two more pages when I'd finished!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 570158, member: 11227"] Thanks for your input. Well, the French idea is that children should be reading fluently by the end of the equivelent of your second grade, not before, so I don't think massive pressure is on. I'd love for it all to be normal but if I'm honest with myself, I have to say that there have been signs for so long that something is not quite right in terms of J's learning certain things... just in the sense that it takes him SO long to acquire what other children acquire easily and quickly - eg colours, days of the week, numbers, letters, etc. He is definitely the slowest in his class for all that. This despite him being bright and intelligent. It's silly he's not seeing a speech therapist; I tried to make contact with her last summer but never could get hold of and when I finally did in the autumn, she was all booked up as far as the eye could see... no other speech therapist has any availability around here. There are alternative methods here, but you need to find people able to teach them... I suppose we just struggle on for the moment, with J being slow and "behind" the class. No, I know it doesn't have to be a fight, susiestar :) It is a fight when I try to do his homework with him during the week... he's bored with it and I think he's really exhausted mentally in the evening after school. But yesterday, for example, I did a couple of pages of a kind of French revision book I bought and, with lots of encouragement and praise, he really got into it - demanded to do two more pages when I'd finished! [/QUOTE]
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