The wilson reading program

Back in April, we had X tested for dyslexia. Our suspicions were confirmed. He also has dysgraphia and HFA. After we received the report back I sent copies to the CSE hoping they could restart his speech and OT services. We were able to start privately over the summer but the insurance burned up quickly. The CSE had us bring him in for reevaluations. The OT is recommending the use of graph paper, text to speech and speech to text. The speech results came back as average and that his issues are with phonetic awareness, not speech. They have a reading specialist but it's a gen ed service so it's not available to homeschoolers. He has made great gains with his writing and motor skills since becoming homeschooled. At least we were able to update his IEP to include the use of google doc's reader. I remember when his OT teacher had told me that his handwriting would never improve (his a's looked like q's). Well, I proved her wrong! Gladly X receives services through a local non-profit organization that was able to get him approved for the WRS. The WRS is a system specifically for dyslexics. I'm considering becoming a certified tutor in this program.

Death

I haven't posted because we had a death in the family. I'll be back next week...

Evacuation

Our local middle school had a bomb threat and had to evacuate the premises. Since X is homeschooled he was able to avoid that situation. Homeschooling is the life for us <3 Sadly not everyone is that lucky.