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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son was super verbal as a baby and toddler and curious and loved stories and books. He flew under the radar until 1st grade when he still couldn’t read at all. We had him tested and then started 3x/week specialized dyslexia intervention.

Academic challenges popped up all through his academic career even after he could read on grade level. Mostly due to profound working memory deficits, which go along with his dyslexia but not every dyslexic has. The memory issues are much more challenging for his academic success than the phonological and orthographic deficits. Those we remediated - the working memory issue is forever (I’ve got it too - pain in the a$$).

He is in college now and stressing that he’ll fail microeconomics. Sigh. That aside he is successful and happy, it’s just always a bit of a bumpy road.[/quote]

What has helped your son (and you) combat the working memory challenges? This seems to be what most greatly affects my DS as well. Did you consider specialized schools like Lab?[/quote]

To be honest the working memory hasn't gotten better for either of us. It is something we live with and work around. It is super difficult in many school settings. Outside of school it really isn't a problem for either one of us. It leads to some of the ability to see the forest for the trees that dyslexics are known for, I think. I UNDERSTAND things - concepts, ideas, feelings, etc. - but I can't recall things like dates, names, disconnected facts. It requires me to focus on big things, not small things, and so I'm really good at strategy and vision and leadership. I say all of that to give you hope that your kid is going to be just fine! In real life the working memory isn't some horrible disadvantage.

We thought about a school like Lab, yes. But my son was in a school he really loved and had great friends. He loves sports and is incredibly social, and so we prioritized keeping him in a school where he enjoyed the social/sports part of school enough to get him there every day.

His grades in middle school and high school weren't great, but good enough to get into a solid college and he is now doing really well in classes where rote memorization isn't needed. So he'll major in something that isn't memory heavy - paradoxically, it he could be an English major in the end.[/quote]

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