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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 552896" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thank you for your comments. Unfortunately, whatever device is used - computer, toy, anything that is a game or makes bright, flashing noises - J is simply not interested in the abstract concept of letters and reading at this point. Unlike your children, MWM, he has never shown the slightest interest in deciphering signs or anything written. Maths, on the other hand, he is quite quick with and went through a phase of wanting to do sums for pleasure (though he has to count the answer out laboriously on his fingers <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />)</p><p>He has the signs of having learning difficulties. Couldn't learn colours for years, still doesn't know the days of the week reliably and will say "Saturday!" wildly if you ask him what day comes after Tuesday... Because I see things in the long term, I don't really worry about this so much. As long as he can learn to read and write, as long as he can find the path that is right for him and one day have a job that he enjoys and is good at (mechanical repairs, for example?) I don't mind. But society and conventional school does mind... </p><p>As for being tested. I don't know how to go about that here! I think you have to wait longer, until everything is obviously collapsing. There will probably be the recommended visit to the school psychologist again next year, at which time things will be suggested, I guess, if he still has real problems reading. </p><p>I do think he is telling everyone he is not ready and I would like to leave it for now, but circumstances have dictated that he is in a conventional system. To be fair, in France they say that the child should be reading by the end of the equivalent of your second grade, not first grade, because they recognise that children develop at different rates.</p><p>We will see, I suppose.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 552896, member: 11227"] Thank you for your comments. Unfortunately, whatever device is used - computer, toy, anything that is a game or makes bright, flashing noises - J is simply not interested in the abstract concept of letters and reading at this point. Unlike your children, MWM, he has never shown the slightest interest in deciphering signs or anything written. Maths, on the other hand, he is quite quick with and went through a phase of wanting to do sums for pleasure (though he has to count the answer out laboriously on his fingers :)) He has the signs of having learning difficulties. Couldn't learn colours for years, still doesn't know the days of the week reliably and will say "Saturday!" wildly if you ask him what day comes after Tuesday... Because I see things in the long term, I don't really worry about this so much. As long as he can learn to read and write, as long as he can find the path that is right for him and one day have a job that he enjoys and is good at (mechanical repairs, for example?) I don't mind. But society and conventional school does mind... As for being tested. I don't know how to go about that here! I think you have to wait longer, until everything is obviously collapsing. There will probably be the recommended visit to the school psychologist again next year, at which time things will be suggested, I guess, if he still has real problems reading. I do think he is telling everyone he is not ready and I would like to leave it for now, but circumstances have dictated that he is in a conventional system. To be fair, in France they say that the child should be reading by the end of the equivalent of your second grade, not first grade, because they recognise that children develop at different rates. We will see, I suppose. [/QUOTE]
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