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  1. found this on cogmed, similar reports on jungle memory, hmmm... lumenosity is cheaper anyway and my DS liked the free games it provided. either way I'll try this AFTER OT is complete.
  2. he is doing multiplication.com and in my opinion he has gotten better. He said that the multiplication factposter that I took down helped him remember a few mathfacts but the others just always used it to get the answer without any retention.
  3. oh I'vebeensooo self-centered! I'm so sorry about your fil passing! Thank you for sharing. Thank you for your advice. So sad to see someone go. I remember when my dear mother passed. I was with her but did miss when the moment occured. I was with her all the other times.
  4. well he went from 10th% to 58th% on speed on the developmental eye movement test and from the 1st% to 52nd% on errors. The doctor stated that the therapy was moderately successful. The eye teaming, focusing, and eye tracking problems were vitually eliminated. He should be able to read and complete school work without any discomfort. I have him read 1 page aday for his hamster (Olga de Polga, about a guinea pig:) and I am always noticing errors on his part. the doctor stated that he and his therapist would have to often ask themselves over the 37 sessions of vision therapy - won't he or can't he. He is the one who strongly recommended the child study. the ed consultant is a psychologist and gave me the results of the IQ test and the reading/math test. she does not give diagnosis. She leaves that for a psychiatrist or neural pediactric doctor. She talked about ADD/ADHD a lot and working memory and processing speed and the scores I stated 1st thing and the services he would receive if he were in pS and how we would probably go bankrupt ifwe did it on our own but we could look into doing it with homeschooling. My next goal is to discuss this with a more homeschool friendly ed. counselor - she is like 1/2 the price of this one. The referring doc talked me out of going to her, he did not know her and saw that the test times were shorter and price was 1/2 and said that my kid is a complicated kid and deserves the full test time. The math/reading test, he had to beg for 2 bathroom breaks, I told the proctor that he should have breaks and she said that it was not set up that way. It was an expensive test. I hope to get perhaps some advice from her - iep like. Perhaps I don't need to go to the 2nd ed. counselor but I will try to get on board with Sharon Hensley's group Almaden Valley Christian School for special needs advice. I inquired with her to see if I can send her the study and have her help me draw up an IEP and she gives me tips throughout the year. Of course I'm in NJ and she is in CA but it can still be done. Also I have also set up with Weisman Children's Rehabilitation Hospital for Occupational Therapy. Sometimes the wait time is 6 month. They'll mail me paperwork. I have to get the study to the pediatrician and then from there get a script for therapy to give to Weisman. Then get treatment. I was thinking of then perhaps seeing a neural pediatric doctor for diagnosis. What's your thought on this? Sharon Hensley is the sp. needs consultant for MODG but she has her own site. It was recommended to me by a tutor who I used last year to give me tips (but she does not do add/adhd, its not her expertise) she has been extremely helpful helping me get organized on my plan. She said you need to 1st get someone to give me tips/tools to help my son. she said do NOT put him PS, she experienced that with her son who had asperger's. She then said when I give the study to the pediatrician put a cover letter on it stating that he had to beg for breaks and he did not know the full importance of the test, if he did then he probably would have done better. I will hold off on cogmed I think I will do the following: Sharon Hensley's group hopefully can help me help my son purchase http://www.amazon.com/Why-Dont-Students-Like-School/dp/047059196Xand maybe this http://stores.diannecraft.org/brain-integration-therapy-manual/ try to get some help from Diane Craft maybe once her e-mail help gets reopened late summer just to make sure??? all the time I know I will be on the waiting list for OT at Weisman then I guess see a neural pediatrician (I do know of one that is homeschool friendly in North Jersey) then if needed do Cogmed. your thoughts please? I don't have a diagnosis. Thank you!!!
  5. Thank you, so muchto show my hubby when he is home. Thank you so much! What would I do without you all and my friend who referred me to you!
  6. Thank you! What is 2e? What is FSIQ? What is GAI? To answer a qs back, the child study is an evaluation. It is just called a child study. She is a phd,, not an md. She cannot diagnose for ADD/ADHD. She stated that he has very low working memory and get this - it cannot be changed, what you have is what you have. A friend stated that the public school will state the same thing. But Cogmed has great results 80% of the time by increasing 1/3 per patient. I hope and pray that that will help my son. Cogmed stated also that the hope is once working memory increases then processing speed will also because once you can recall a math fact or a phonogram, etc. you then build confidence and then eventually build speed. that is the hope at least. Also she said that diet does not seem to work with this but the fidgeting of kids like this seems to be used by these kids as perhaps a less than perfect memory aid. Interesting. A friend stated to use a metronome (or one on-line) as a memory/organizational aid for concepts, to have it in the background. I might have missed a few things about that but right now I'm grabbing at straws and my day has been an endless stream of phone calls and e-mails. Thank you!
  7. THank you all. What is OG? He remembers a lot of things. He remembers tons and tons of facts about videogames and chima characters and stuff like that. He has had a brain MRI because he would get ringing in the ears off and on and he is fine thank God! He has a thickening of the membrane there though because of allergies. netty pot is supposedly good for that. We have tried it off and on and have had him ingest apple cider vinegar mixed in water and other healthy things that are supposed to counter act allergy symptoms. Prior to going with the ed. counselor we went with I did ask if she is homeschool friendly and she insisted that she was and that homeschoolers do go to her. But well whatever. There is a homeschool friendly ed. counselor in an adjacent state that is like 1/2 the price and 1/2 the time. .The original referral doctor felt that my son was so complicated that he deserves the indepth testing and so went for that. Now I want this homeschool friendly ed counselor to look at the results. I'm going to copy and mail them to her. Also since I last posted I contacted Cogmed branch near me and they tout a 80% increase in working memory by 1/3 of the time (which would bring my son up to average - yay!) She feels after talking to me over the phone and discussing his report that he would be a good candidate. If anyone else is interested it is $1300.00 well each branch sets their own pricing. I am excited for my son. I love the suggestions you all made. It seems like a lot to do. Right now summer is to be enjoyed but he would love to do minecraft! I will try robsomething too. he'll love that. He also does multiplication.com and seems to be getting better with math facts. I think so at least.
  8. OK my son has had trouble with working memory and processing speed. He has some gifts and some deficits. We got teh child study back last night I have cried my eyes out thinking that I will have to stop homeschooling him. Here are his results in brief: verbal comprehension 95% visual spatial 98% fluid reasoning 88% working memory 16% processing speed 6% that was IQ which overall is 116 for math and reading test his RPI (relative Performance Index) was very limited in these areas: math calculation 6/90 (he is so used to the 1-100 chart and the multiplication fact poster in our homeschool, I left it up in hopes that it would imprint eventually in his long term memory. He will be 10 in under 1 month now. the testing area does not have those posters so he told me that he could not do any of the multiplication without the poster and the report stated that at times he got the wrong answer on addition and subtraction problems by using the wrong operation through inattention), spelling he scored 15/90 (although at home on spelling words he has spelled all week he does fairly well by thursday but down the road he will forget how to spell them - long term memory problem again), writing samples 8/90 (he has dysgraphia and finds writing hard and tedious), sentence writing fluency 4/90 (we studied this this year but the 1.5-2 hour test had no deemed breaks but he balked to get 2 bathroom breaks, he should really have a break every 15-20 minutes but that is the way they are set up), he scored limited in the following: sentence reading fluency 33/90 number matrices 27/90 he scored limited to average in the following: reading recall 80/90 math applied problems 70/90 he scored average to advanced in the following: picture vocabulary 95/90 and advanced in the following: picture vocabulary 98/90 (he has a very high vocabulary and I read to him copious books and he seems to do very well with this) this was all from the woodcook-johnson iv tests for oral language and achievement I need encouragement to homeschool. Last year (3rd grade) was very very difficult but going forward I wanted to enroll with MODG for special needs. I have never enrolled before. My husband was at the child study meeting and he is now totally on board with putting him in public school. The ed. counselor was very doom and gloom - he needs special services now so that he can go to college later. He needs to be able to write a paper and puts his thoughts down on paper. I will contact an occupational therapist about services. He has already had his convergency deficiency reversed but he does have some letter reversal and dysgraphia (it went from maybe 12% to 30% on a bell curve) with therapy. The therapist/doctor team told me that they took him as far as they could and strongly recommended a child study. And here we are. He has a very poor self-image because he cannot do school well. He is frustrated with his own working memory when he plays he tells me. He hates school but does not want to be homeschooled. We had him in basketball camp and vacation bible school this summer and try outs for the swim team and he had a bad time. Despite his gregariousness he doesn't pick up on social queues like went to stop telling jokes (although he is working on this now, he asked other kids for advice on this) and just other queues. Because dysgraphia effects his sports ability (eye hand coordination and other 9-10 yr olds have caught up to their peers) he is not picked for team sports and so hates playing outside. He wants to continue to be homeschooled. He does not want to go to public school and be bullied he says. Help help hellp help help please thank you!
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