Guest guest Posted April 16, 2005 Report Share Posted April 16, 2005 , Are you still using an attorney? S/he might be able to help you short circuit the line for the waiting list. It's not like this is a frivolous change of schools! , Speaking of dictating, (age 17) dictated a composition to me just the other day. The topic was to imagine what he would do if he were drafted to fight in Afghanistan or Iraq upon his 18th birthday. All he kept saying was why that couldn't happen, and got more and more agitated. So I got a book, knocked on it (to simulate a knock on the door) and said " I'm a recruiter. I want you to be a soldier in my army. " And I wrote down what he said. Whew! The long and short? I think there's a place for dictating, even after second or third grade. Liz On Apr 16, 2005, at 9:47 AM, Tombrello wrote: > > Velvet, > > I have a desk dweller, too, it seems! And Sasha is also an awesome > navigator at times! > > My son has a co-dx of ADHD and knows all his parts and loved to recite > them > when he was two. He memorized entire books and recited them from > memory. He > uses words like " obstacle " and " exasperated " in his speech, and yet the > school considers him intellectually below average and probably not > capable > of being mainstreamed. I would agree that his math skills are quite, > well, > underdeveloped, but I know that he is capable of writing longer and > more > detailed compositions. It's curious. When I mentioned dictation as a > possible way around the slow and sloppy way he writes, they told me > that > " every seven-year-old can dictate far better than he or she can write. " > Hmmm. How does one counter that one? > T. > mom of Sasha, 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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