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  1. In future, I hope people here feel free to ask for further information rather than to take offense at what I can clearly tell you was not meant as a criticism of this forum or anyone on it. I can see in our own homeschool community that parents have issues when involving the schools but I am so thankful that my experience was the opposite. I felt that because I was did have trouble understanding the language on the forum that it would be easier to seek further assistance from the school system than here. It was the kindness of people from this forum who wrote to me privately to say they understood and to continue to try that helped me to try again. When facing any new problem, I hope that I am open to many different sources of help. Books, school psychologists, my homeschool community, and I was hoping here. I am kind of amazed at how poorly this is going. I see other threads where people are having more anxiety and clearly expressing more feeling with much encouragement and support. I have asked once to keep the post about the topic but it has become more of an interpersonal discussion about my way of expressing myself and defending myself for really no reason. I am so sorry that people have such strong reactions to whatever I wrote. Again, it wasn't meant to offend. I am going to sign off from this group now as I have enough going on without adding all this conflict. I appreciate those who understand implicitly and for those who don't, I wish you well.
  2. Thank you for sharing what worked for you. I have ordered MCT's books. I appreciate your support of this forum. I think it is natural to be overwhelmed by it but I am sorry to have shared my feelings here. By admitting this, it seems that I have started something that I did not intend to start. I thought the forum would be receptive to my experience and some people have acknowledged that it can be hard to jump into. Productive or not, my feelings are not unusual I suspect. Perhaps, voicing them is? I would rather keep the thread on topic not about how I use or process information. I am sure that any help is freely given with the best intentions. I can let you know that I read it gratefully with the intention to understand.
  3. We read to her all the time but she is always reading or doing some project. She was teaching daddy homeschool when I went out for an hour. We may try audiobooks. Yes, they said I should try being her "scribe" for her math to see if that helps. Today did go better. Chess! Yes, need to get back to it. :)
  4. I talked to the school dept psychologist today when we were at the school for speech therapy. It turns out that the special needs teacher who sees my daughter 5 days a week now taught gifted children in his last job. He has decided that after they finish the current story they are reading that he is going to bump her up a lot. He also gave me a lot of resource materials geared to gifted children to keep and use. One of the things he recommended which was interesting to me was anti-coloring books. The psychologist said I should be reading literature to her and focusing a lot on science, logic, and problem solving because she is gifted in abstract thought, logic, problem solving, and in language. She isn't worried about her reading since we have a program in place for that. She also suggested I be here secretary for math. My daughter can answer everything orally and I can write it down for her. We are hoping that by taking that step out that her thoughts won't get disrupted.
  5. I talked to the people at All About Reading and they suggested to wait until after AAS lv 3. She is familiar with grammar from her latin studies so I am hoping Grammar Island helps.
  6. Thanks to everyone who wrote in. I appreciate you taking the time to try and help. I will follow-up with the school dept. here as I am sure that they will be able to continue to help me understand what exactly is going on. I think that perhaps this avenue of exploration is too confusing and overwhelming for me. Thank you for your kindness.
  7. I think you are right. Maybe that is why I didn't get specific answers from the tester about her exact strengths and weaknesses?
  8. My daughter has only been homeschooled. Never enrolled. CELF? What is that? SLDs?
  9. CTOPP ? Huh? DC? Dear child? Barton pretest? Do I really need to test her more after all these professional assessments?
  10. Please, no more short hand. I have no idea what you mean. I am new-ish to these forums.
  11. I was asking a question in another thread and it was suggested that I start this topic. I have since found out with a little internet research that if you have a gifted child with learning disabilities that the term is twice exceptional. Hoping that is right but even if it is not, I would prefer not to get into a debate about correct terminology. My story so far is that my very bright daughter who is in 3rd grade and has never been to school was starting to have problems in math and reading in second grade. She couldn't remember times tables and would have periods where she seemed to forget everything. At the same time, she would be able to explain advanced concepts to my seemingly by intuition. Last year, I changed her over to All About Spelling and Reading which helped a great deal. I decided to redo second grade for those subjects since she didn't seem to understand decoding that well from her previous books. AAS/AAR's multisensory technique and building worked for her so I feel that we are getting on track there. We are using Singapore math and she just finished 4A last week. She has superior conceptual math understanding especially with word problems but often gets the arithmetic wrong. We have added Exploring Numbers through Dot Patterns. They recommended at the meeting that I let her use an adding machine for the Singapore math portion of our day. The testing she had done by the state was finished this month and our team meeting was last Weds. It was two hours. The test results were discussed, she was determined to have dyslexia and dyscalculia and that she was a gifted student as well. They offered her speech therapy specifically targeting sh, ch, and blends. They also will give her 30 min of special education resources without really having a plan of what that means yet. If I could come up with some suggestions for them, I think they would be happy to have them. It was through looking at articles on the internet that I found out that I should not overlook the gifted part of the assessment. I will have to ask the tester to be more specific about what she is gifted in and how dyslexic she is. There really wasn't enough time at the meeting. She did mention that she had a hard time quantifying my daughter's test results because of her gifts. Please don't ask me what that means because I do not know. I can see that there is a lot of help for dyslexia, less so for dyscalculia, and I am assuming for gifted children but what do you do when they are altogether? Opening this thread up for general discussion and not necessarily for my child alone. I still need time to learn more and process this better than I have.
  12. We are doing AAR and AAS at home so they aren't planning on doubling that. I think the resource teacher is trying to figure out what she needs. The more input I can put in, the better. In speech, she is working on sh, ch, and blends. We had one 2 hour meeting that went over the test results and then determined what minimal services were required by the state to offer her by state law. It was a lot to take in. My lay-person view of what dyslexia is turns out not to be what it is! I did order a book from the library. I will try to get more specific info on where she is on the spectrum from the tester asap. She said it was very hard to quantify exactly what was going on with my daughter because of her gifts.
  13. Wow, thanks for all the ideas. I am a bit overwhelmed right now as we just found out the testing results this week. She already has started speech therapy and some remedial work for an hour each morning before we home school at the local public school. Some websites on education have pointed out that gifted children with learning disabilities often have their gifted side ignored with the focus being on the disability side so I have that to think of as well.
  14. I considered it but it has "faith based content."
  15. Thanks. I will give it a go then. I value all the help you all have given.
  16. Part of the trouble of reading the boards is the amount of short hand. Thanks for explaining that to me.
  17. I appreciate you taking the time to explain so much about FWIW and IEW. I know it isn't about worksheets but I have used a curriculum before that was worksheet based and that didn't stick. The cost of IEW is too great for our budget so that is out of the running. I didn't know if I should try out MCT Grammar Island because it is for gifted children but my daughter did test as gifted as well with one of the gifted areas being reading comprehension so maybe it would be ok? All About Spelling/reading suggested to wait until she is done with Lv 3 of All About Spelling to begin a writing program. I am now thinking of trying Grammar Island while finishing lv 3 AAS and then moving on with the MCT program lv 1.
  18. I think I might get Michael Clay Thompson's Grammar Island and start from there. She gets super bored with worksheets. I can afford under $50 but not over $100.
  19. Is there any other that isn't so expensive or intense?
  20. IEW has so many products. Do you have a recommendation of what to choose?
  21. My 3rd grade homeschooled daughter has finished her learning disabilities testing by the state. She is gifted with dyslexia and dyscalculia. We are using All About Reading and All About Spelling which is working great and have now added Exploring with Dots to our Singapore math curriculum but I still need to come up with a writing/grammar curriculum that she can do. She is an abstract thinker as well. Does anyone have any ideas of a secular program designed for dyslexia? I have looked through the boards but most suggested programs are Christian based. Thank you in advance. PS I recommend that if you think your child has a learning disability that you have your local school dept test them for free. I am so glad I did because now I know what I am working with and can take advantage of their free help and tailor my curriculum to my daughter's needs.
  22. Hansel and Gretel, L'elisir d'amore, Don Pasquale, barber of seville are all faves. My daughter loves opera too. She named the collie Nemorino and has a picture of Anna Netrebko on her wall. The MET Opera has a learning program which they shared with us. It is really good. A lot of local operas are doing anything they can to get children involved. We live in the middle of nowhere so we can't take advantage but local operas usually want children to at least visit.
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