Hello - new to posting here but often read as you all seem so knowledgable. I'm in the UK and not a home educator - and actually work in education as a primary maths advisery teacher, but hope you won't hold that against me!
I have a 13year old adopted DD. I adopted her when she was almost 8 and to cut a very long story short, she functioned very well at primary school - though before her behaviour stabilised in care at age 6.5, there were concerns of learning disablities but then learnt to read in about 4 months - from a non reader to slightly above average! Anyway at primary she functioned at high average across the board and average in maths.
Since atsrting at high school (nearly 2 years ago now), things have deteriorated so that now she is average across the board but falling far far behind in maths...in fact i would say that she's gone backwards in maths - she really understands very little now.
She has recently been diagnosed with ADHD and just started on concerta but it's too early to comment on it's impact though early indications suggest improvement in focus and less impulsive behaviour - but nothing too dramatic. I also had her assessed by an educational neuropsychologist and these are her WISC IV scores
Verbal Comprehension subtests
Perceptual Reasoning
Subtests
Similarities
11
Block Design
5
Vocabulary
10
Picture Concepts
13
Comprehension
8
Matrix Reasoning
8
Working Memory subtests
Processing Speed subtests
Digit Span
9
Coding
9
Letter-Number Sequencing
10
Symbol Search
10
This has given her FSIQ of 94, Verbal comprehension 98, perceptual reasoning 92, working memory 97, processing speed 97.
As well as this, she was given a maths age of 9years 8 months and a standardised score of 76 which apparently is out of synch with her IQ and a Perceptual quotient score of 75 - I already new that her visual perception was shot pieces.
As you have already read, I am a specialist primary maths teacher myself, but have no idea of how to go about remediating maths for my daughter when up until 2 years ago, she was keeping up fine!
I would love any advice anyone could shed on this!
Thank you