What age did you start Fix It? I have it for my older and I think it would work well for his brothers at some point. It's great to see that BA works for some many. I am going to go ahead and order the first section and see how we like it.

I don't have answers, but just stopping by to say I really sympathize with you! This sounds so much like my older son. He has always wanted to be an engineer, so I'm stressing on the STEM kid not great at math thing too. He does like to supplement with Khan though. Likes the badges and points. His brothers do Prodigy but he isn't interested.

:iagree: Yes, He may be seeing 8+2 as a jumble of numbers on the page. I would look into a COVD. My son had both issues, vision and dyslexia. Would not have been able to start remediation seriously without his convergence issues being tackled. >> He is receiving therapy for a mixed expressive-receptive language disorder and phonological disorder. He has a very limited short term auditory memory. It seems like he learns best when information is connected to a story or a bigger picture, which is common with dyslexics. So he gets it better when the problem is cookies that he can imagine eating. Sorry ETA- We also use CLE and my son refused to do timed drills or really any of the drills. If you do drills, if he has poor working memory I think the timed aspect might put too much pressure on him.

I hope your testing goes well. :) Agree this forum is so helpful!

Good idea to try out both. I'm just starting to realize I need to separate the addition and subtraction. I hope things will eventually stick and he isn't trying to figure out addition in college LOL. I also realize if he takes a break over the summer, he will possible forget how to spell his name :P

It's great that your son can give you this feedback. I'm interested to see what you try next. I have meltdowns picking out yarn too :)

goodness, like his anxiety couldn't be caused by dealing with ADHD?? Sorry you had this experience.

There is nothing wrong with CLE Math at all, so I'm wondering what I'm thinking. Well, I'm thinking monsters and comic book layout would appeal to my dyslexic and that AoPS looks good for the older years, so might be good to start on their system early. How does your dyslexic child do with either one of these? Also, over the summer I am hoping to remediate issues DS has with carrying and borrowing. He knows how to do it and why, but the step by step is tripping him up. He crosses out when carrying and tries to add while he is carrying the number over. In CLE, they mix subtraction and addition, which I know is a real life situation, but it throws him off too. Thanks

picking 3 is a great idea, thanks

Sorry, I guess that is confusing. He is going through every single thing in KA math to get all the points, so he is on 3rd grade for fun. He is at a pre-algebra/algebra level. I'm pretty sure KA isn't sufficient, just not sure what else to try.

Background: my son hates when I try to help him with math, he's done CLE, Khan Academy, Derek Owens (pricey and he wasn't feeling it), Adapted Mind, a tutor, etc, etc. I showed him Essential Mathematics for Life book 6 (got for $1!) and said do you just want to use this with reference books and the Internet? No, I like Khan Academy. He is going through the whole thing as review and is about to graduate 3rd grade :glare: (in Khan's world of math - up to pre-algebra otherwise) Ideas on if I should let him form his own math plan and see what happens? He is geared towards STEM, so not something I want to see him struggle with.

Thank you, so many suggestions. I do regularly offer him coffee in the morning. I don't know if it helps. I guess I should come up with some way to measure progress, like 5 points if he hears me the first time without that far away look and saying "whaa?". I bought a supplement for my husband from Native Remedies called Focus Addult, which is mostly ginseng. Does anyone use that? I could try that for a bit. I could try lessons outside, sounds more fun anyway.

So the tutor says he tries to go off on tangents with her but she just gives him a look and taps the page, he sighs and moves on. I love that there is *someone* he is on track with, so I guess I will give him a little break. I don't know why, but whenever I am at my wit's end with this one and I vent about it, the next day he seems to be making a jump forward. He was reading Ranger Rick Jr. to his brother and read his own bedtime story (Wacky Wednesday) out loud to us. I guess I need to remember both these things for next time.

This price is about what we paid too. It was a tough one to swallow and insurance wouldn't cover it, but the peace of mind was very worth working extra to cover it. Just knowing the severity of the dyslexia is helpful. If a child is severely dyslexic, you know you are going to be remediating for a while and it's a little easier to just brush off a bad day. Is the eval just for reading issues or will they be able to diagnose other issues like ADD, if present?

Have you ruled out ADD and/or vision issues? Would you be able to get a full eval or a dyslexia screening with a psychologist? I think testing is a good idea. There may be things you don't know you are dealing with. I couldn't imagine trying to remediate my son without him getting his convergence issues (vision) treated.

I'm just starting to research ADD thinking about my smart but spacey 13 year old. When I start to look up natural supplements, I read a lot of people saying don't bother. If you or your kid has inattentive ADD, how do you treat it? Is there anything natural worth looking into? thanks

Not too early to test. See if the public school will test her, but honestly you might have trouble with that being that it is the end of the school year. If you currently teach both kids reading at the same time, switch it so your 7 year old is out of the room during her sister's lessons, maybe computer time. They need to be taught at different times so she compares less. Dyslexic parents have a 50/50 chance of having a child with dyslexia. I'm sure you are telling her she isn't dumb :) but when she says this I found a good thing to say is everyone learns in a different way and we're still finding the best way that works for you.

Maybe you would like to supplement with something that is a game instead, like Nessy.com or something that isn't a whole program in itself. I am not doing Barton but I did look through the reading lessons through literature. I think supplementing with another program would be too much for me.

Thank you all for the replies. I am just starting to get ADD on my radar. These comments help a lot. Maybe it is just normal for all the brain power he has to put into reading. We see his tutor twice a month, I will bring this up and see what she says, but he is a different animal with her. She gets 100% compliance and smiles :D Lecka, he was getting really bad with trying to distract me. It is funny they can figure this out! But we try to aim for getting work done by noon and he gets a small food treat when he is done, so that zapped a little bit of that. I wish I was easier to get a full eval. I feel like my whole family is this mystery I need a professional to figure out for me.

So DS 9 has been with an OG tutor for the whole school year. It's going well, he is almost out of short vowels and he knows a bunch of sight words. The reading passages are getting longer. For homework, he will very often will need to make a comment or a whole other story about what he's reading (yay, comprehension I guess) or tell me some random fact that he thinks is really cool or make the lego thing he's playing with do something fun. I'm ok with this because I guess he needs to recharge his working memory or something, but is this an issue? I'm sure being able to focus for longer times is critical, but I'm not sure how far to push with it. Right now, I'm just trying to get him to at least complete the sentence he is reading before going off on a tangent. We got through page 1 of 4 without doing this today, so I guess some progress.

so just answering my own posts here :p we tried the trial and it seems that issues I read before of the US part of the site not having a proper accent is fixed. It sounds normal to me. DS likes it and we are trying it out more. It's hard to say no to him wanting to play a reading game.

I think this is so sweet and not a problem at all. She likes you as a person, congrats!

Hi, I hope you are all doing well. I saw a video for Nessy : http://www.nessy.com/ and I'm wondering if anyone here uses it. I'm concerned that it only teaches with a British accent and spelling and I'm guessing that would be frustrating to a kid who speaks American English. Any feedback on this program? Thanks

Shhh... no more diagnoses! I can only take so much! joking...sort of

I'm going to cling to this idea and just smile away to myself every time he whines, it's working! LOL We do have reading rewards set aside, but sadly he wants lollipops not tea. My bad, I wish I didn't push candy as rewards. Kind of hard to get away from now.