I just saw this and have not read all replies. Please know this is NOT hopeless. My mother and I both struggle with what we call 'a touch of dyslexia'. We transpose letters and numbers and are not always aware of it. Most of the time it isn't a big deal but some things do make it work. What I experience is at least part of what the neuropsychologist says J is coping with. It can drive me nuts but mostly it isn't too much of a hindrance. I learnd coping skills along the way and it made a big difference. I use picture associations to work with the letters. SOmetimes I look at a word and it ust seems to be written incorrectly. I learned various little things like the capital E opens to the right just like it is looking at my watch. I have mixed dominance of left/right handedness and always had a watch on my right hand instead of the left. I imagined the E as a face of someone looking at my watch.
There are similar tricks that he can learn. I still caannot always tell left from right. I couldn't EVER do it until I started learnng to drive. I learned that to turn left the tirn signal lever goes up and then I look at the light on the dashboard to see which way to turn. When my driver's ed teacher caught on he was floored.
The vision specialists can do amaziing things. I know you like France, but J is not going to get what he needs there. At least not in your village. I am sorry.
One thing that helps to keep him on the right line is a bookmark with a small rectangle cut out to fit over a line of text. I have seen some that school proved and many that kids or parents or teachers created to help with-o spending $. I mostly just taped pieces of cardstock together so they fit over the text in the book. At the end of the line you move the bookmark down. It can be a big help and is really easy. You can block out the rest of the page or just lines around the one you are working on.
Be careful with test scores. They help a lot, but they are snapshots. They are a picture of how his mind was working at that time. They present a baseline. Future testing will give even moe information. It is important that you have as much info on the testing for your files and Parent Report.
