I don't know. Am I understanding correctly that she is 5yo? I am curious to know why she would be placed in a 1st grade classroom. Does she have ADHD and handwriting issues? I don't know you or enough about your situation to hold an opinion. Your child seems young to me and not ready to do more formal academics. If she will select a book and read it to you, that is great. By aged 5yo, we played math games using dominoes and dice to work on subitizing and counting skills. Handwriting would be 5 minutes max on the HWT app and maybe practice forming letters using the whole arm. For the rest of the subjects, who cares really? She is 5 yo. Pop in an audio book and whip out the water colors or put together a puzzle or play Connect 5 or QWIRKLE. ETA: Grow a container garden. Look at bugs and insects. You suspect that this child has FAS? Find a local subject matter expert on FAS and follow their recommendations. If they say meds, try them.

Maybe look at the Voice Dream app for the iPad. Immersion reading on the Fire Kindles does this and slow down the reading speed. Windows OS has ease of use functions that will read aloud text. I don't recall what it is called; however, you can use the function in Word and Adobe Acrobat. I think a program called WordQ/SpeakQ will do this as well.

You could ask her why she is so adamant about the drugs. Perhaps she sees something in your DD that you are missing. OT/PT has turned down the volume for us; however DS is still inattentive. He can sit better and focus longer, but the attention issues are still present. DS is unmedicated with dysgraphia/motor weirdness.

There is a doctor shortage developing where I live. A handful of GPs are shedding 90% of their patients and running a concierge practice. I don't know whether doctors are incentivized to push certain drugs, but it sure feels that way. My children's ped is not a subject matter expert on either ADHD or learning issues. If you are unsatisfied with the ped, ask around and discover a psychologist that specializes with ADHD and is open to OT and other interventions. Personally, our ped is the last person I would seek ADHD helps from. She signs referrals when it comes to stuff outside her area.

We used this Practical Computer Literacy book for 9th grade.

Aren't you looking down the road to an NLD diagnosis? Maybe look at what insurance covers for that sort of thing.

Each child is different and only you can determine whether computerized learning is good or bad for your student. If you are concerned about handwriting, consider taking your child to an OT for a one hour evaluation. The OT should look at several variables including visual perception, pincer/core strength, motor planning, vestibular/balance, developmental motor, and handedness. When my DD was late Kindie, I had her evaluated by OT, and she had pincer/core strength issues and demonstrated some motor planning problems. She performed a number of exercises and was released from OT. Afterwards, I used the HWT iPad app with her and she formed letters with big arm movements. We progressed from the dry erase board over to copywork sheets that I made up using Start Write sw. Letter automaticity did not come for 10 months. She performs minor copywork now, takes dictation, and writes her spelling words. Scribe and work slowly with your DD.

I see that you live in AZ...If you're concerned about a reading disability, call your local Scottish Rite Learning Center and discover whether they provide free or low cost dyslexia screenings.

I seem to recall one mom using ping pong to get her DS to engage one hand, and it helped determine/establish his dominance.

Never heard of that program, but for $600, it seems expensive. DS uses Bookshare (free)combined with the Voice Dream iPad($10) app to listen and read to audio books with word highlighting. Voice Dream reads multiple types of files. Learning Ally costs, but we download all son's text and books not available on Bookshare. The Library Service offers free audio books. DS uses his Kindle Touch with text to speech turned on. DS types. Inspiration sw is cheap through the Homeschool Buyer's co-op. Free mindmapping programs are available. XMind is one that DS uses. DS uses the EchoSmart Pen in class. Many students use Ginger software for spelling and word prediction. I cannot think of anything else. Perhaps if you narrow down exactly what you are looking for, someone can help you.

For wetting, the book It's No Accident is worth reading. I seem to recall the author came on this board a couple years back.

OP, I am sorry. Hang in there. I think I grimaced and gasped 10 times reading about your experience. My Dad retired USAF, and my Mom had a terrible time dealing with doctors for my severely handicapped sister. It would be nice if the US gov't could manage the healthcare of military servicemen/women and their families better but NO! And now, the US gov't has taken over all of healthcare.

Go down to the bottom of the page. http://www.wordworkskingston.com/WordWorks/WW_Revised_Teacher_Resource_Book_%26_70_Matrices_DVD.html Apparently, you contact the creators directly.

TexasMama, I think of you a lot when I think about reintegration exercises. Has anyone ever explained to you why kiddos on the spectrum have the retained reflexes and why it takes so long to reintegrate them?

And now we know why the O-G tutors get trained, work with their own kids, and then tutor others once their children are older. The prep is unbelievable.

That info was more for FairP. These programs are designed for students that have completed phonics instruction and are reading for comprehension. The very expensive link with the flash cards and pictures looks the best for your purposes. ETA..Wait, I reread the thread. You ordered it. Fabulous! It looks very good for what you need.

Reintegration exercises are for individuals with retained reflexes. Your child may not require the exercises. Retained reflexes will effect developmental vision, the ability to sit still, involuntary wetting, directionality, pencil grasp, and a host of other issues. Here is a link that explains how to test your children at home.

Yes...Check out these samples and see if that is what you are looking for. I noticed that Elements includes some etymology, aka word history, as well. For whatever reason, Foundation seems more appealing to me.

Here's what the LOE creator says about morphology, and she recommends Dynamic Literacy.

When I say morphology, I mean roots and affixes. Suffixes like /s/, /es/, and /ed/ are part of that. I can't recall the number, but something like 60% of English words have either a Greek or Latin root word.

So what are the prospects? Can this issue be resolved? Outside of behavior and handwriting, what other subjects are being affected?

Let me email my friend and ask. LOE recommends two separate programs that seem to be dependent upon the age of the student, but I have no idea of their approach. DS took a regular Vocabualry from Classical roots class and aced it. We have also used English from the Roots Up Cards. The materials always look dry as dust to me.

Ok, the Microsoft add-on is by far the easiest program simply because you can edit the equations in the Word doc if you make a mistake and need to correct, exactly as Geoff stated! The equations can also be solved and there are various plot functions, which would have been awesome to use last semester. I like MathMagic Lite; however, the equations are saved as png files to be copied into a document. Once copied within the document, the equations are not very readable. I played with the fonts and sizes and saw some improvement, but the quality was not super great for printing. Also, you cannot edit equations once they are a png file. So, please wish us luck. I am learning as much as I can to decrease the learning curve for DS. We need to get up to speed quickly as he will be in class next Tuesday.. Thank-you again Geoff.

As in Developmental Coordination Disorder?

While speaking with a local Wilson tutor, I was told that a thorough morphology study should follow dyslexia remediation. All through Wilson, DS was studying affixes. As to the actual history of spelling, LOE includes a tiny bit of it in the Foundations materials for spelling. Denise Eides of LOE might be a good person to connect with directly and ask.