I should get the full eval report for the SLP next week. She really stressed that she wants us to work together so I'm hoping she will be more helpful than the last SLP. I wasn't with her for the eval because I was at my other daughters PT. It is Neuropsych I don't know if they are doing all of the testing at this apt or not. They weren't super clear. I will be up there for cardiology in Nov and will find out then what to expect at the Dec NeuroPhych apt then. Our Social Worker and Coordinator up there are super helpful. Once I told them we were having trouble locally I got a call with an appointment date up there. It's just trying to see anyone within a 2-hour drive that's a nightmare.

The wait lists in my area are crazy. From the time of referral it took us over a year to get into therapy then her SLP moved and its been several months since then to get into a new one. (My other daughter is on 3 waitlists for OT and has been for 16 months). Getting into Nuropsych has been a similar struggle. That's where we are going in Dec. The schools here are slower. A TON of places around here won't see kids over 10. We had to go through her transplant clinic to get into a nurophych clinic over 3 hours away.

Background: My 13-year-old daughter had a heart transplant at 9 and we suspect some brain damage from the bypass machine. Apt in Dec with a specialist for that. Today we FINALLY were able to get an evaluation done by a SLP who listened to what we said. Her verbal scores are normal but she is reading at a third-grade instructional level, writing is worse. She remembers almost no details about what she reads. We have done both phonics and sight words instruction and have made almost no progress in the past 3 years. I feel like we have tried everything under the sun for reading, writing, and spelling. I'm at a loss as to what to do now.

This was very helpful. Thank you.

I'm looking for recommendations for my daughter. She wants a career in the arts and has forever. I'm looking for something secular to guide her in developing her drawing, painting and sculpting skills. She is in 6th grade.

I was talking to the children's librarian in my medium-sized town and he asked me what books would be good to buy for the library to have for homeschoolers. They JUST ordered the newest edition of The Well Trained Mind. I mentioned to him to flip through it for ideas but he also asked for more places to look. What sources or books do you wish your library had? Books about homeschooling and books for your kids.

WWE starts with basic questions about the story then asks them to say one thing they remember from the story. The passage was from Little house in the big woods.

The lesson we did was one paragraph (about 6 sentences). Next time I'll try sentence by sentence.

I'll bring that up to his mom. We have been focusing on reading and math up until now. He's reading at about a 1st-grade level and his math was about there as well. (By common core standards which is what his school follows)

I'm helping a friend over the summer. Their son will be 8 next week and just failed 2nd grade. I'm good helping with most things but I'm stuck on one problem. I've started WWE 1 with him. On day 2 is the first narration. He could not answer a single question about the story. I reread it to him and nothing. His answers were completely unrelated to what I had just read to him. Any Ideas on how I can help with this?

First a bit of background. My girls are 8 (9 in a month) and 7. I also have a four year old boy. The last 5 years have been... just rough. We moved across country, my husband got sick, passed away, we moved back across country, were homeless for a month, have moved 4 times, I remarried (an old friend that we have known for years), and my oldest daughter has been put on the heart transplant list. Though my oldest hasn't had her transplant yet she is stable enough to wait at home and things have FINALLY settled down. Some how during this time the girls have learned to read, add and subtract, very basic multiplication and division, and they have become quite good at narration and copy-work. We have not been "doing school" regularly but I think it is time. I am looking for advice on how to ease into a more structured education. I'm hopping to spend the summer easing into school, focusing on reading, writing (REALLY lacking in this department), and math. So we can start up "for real" in the Fall. Any advice would be very helpful. Thank you

I think mines a 2010... Week 21 Starts reading Treasure Island in the literature section and gets up through chapter 34. Does that line up?

I'm glad she's not the only one.

My 7 year old is doing FLL, WWE, A Reason for Handwriting, AAS, and lots of reading.

Thank you

Our front door has 2 knobs. You have to turn both to get inside. (We haven't lived here long and that's one of the things I want to fix. Getting groceries inside is almost painful.) The other day my oldest daughter had a baby doll in her hand so she couldn't turn them both. I was sitting on porch watching and it took her AT LEAST 3 or 4 minutes to stop turning one knob at a time and put the doll down and open the door. SO, long story short. I'm looking for Logic/Critical Thinking problems or a curriculum for my 7 year old Daughter. Her reading is a little below "normal" and I would like them to be as independent as possible. I am a widow with 3 little ones so cheap is good an free is better.

Public Schools around here count going to the county fair as a school day. I use that as the bar for us.

Thanks y'all. I live in a VERY small space so our school area is also my bedroom and the living room/dining room/kitchen. I think I can make something work with these suggestions.

We start FLL when we are about half way through OPG or when we start "1st grade" which ever comes second.

My children are 7, 5, and 3. Almost everything we do is very teacher intensive, sometimes there is a little bit at the end of the lessons that they can do on their own. my problem is coming in during those 5 - 15 minutes between them getting done with their alone work and me finishing up with the other child. (This doesn't include my 3 year old. he has a pretty good routine that he established for himself that he goes by in the morning while we do school). What do your kids do during these breaks? How can I better manage them?

Yes, she has problems with articulation. Thank you, I'll look into that one.

Thanks, I'm in FL so I will ask them about that when I go to the Parent Resource Center next week to turn in the homeschool papers.

I have a 5 year old daughter who is currently in public school. The only reason that she is there is so she can receive speech therapy. Because of resent events at the school I am very seriously considering pulling her and homeschooling her like I do my 7 year old. Trin (5 year old) has no language problems, only speech. Does anyone one here do speech at home? What do you recommend?

They are very lucky that it wasn't me picking her up. My friend lost their temper at one point but it was VERY mild compared to what would have happened if I was there.

Right now I am so beyond Pi***d off. I was at a doctors appointment getting biopsy results to see if I had cancer (I don't, thank you GOD, but I was already stressed out) and a good friend of mine was picking up my 5 year old from school. I got a call (right in the middle of the doctor giving me my results) that my daughter isn't at the car pick up and the teachers have been looking for her for 15 minutes and THEY CAN'T find her. Because my friend is also my ride (I don't drive well under stress) I get out of the doctor as fast as possible and begin to walk to the school, a 2 hour walk. I tell my friend to call me if they find her and to call the cops if they don't find her quickly. 30 minutes later I got the call that they found her. Her teacher sent my Kindergartner to an after school program. I could understand this if her schedule had changed or if it was a sub but she has been a car rider sense the first day and she had been sitting there CRYING saying she wasn't suppose to be there. She was paged several times AND SHE TOLD THEM and they did NOTHING. Public school for her was always temporary, so she could get speech, but she is bored in class, because the work is to easy for her, and this is just the most resent and most grievous in a LONG line of issues we have had and I don't think speech is worth it any more. I have a parent teacher conference on Thursday and if I don't get any answers I'm done.