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[quote=Anonymous]DD is a high school freshman, with moderate to severe dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia and ADHD. She was in a SN needs in middle, which helped her some. She's working with a tutor on study habits and making sure she is doing her assignments, but she is often late or has missing assignments (she says she starts in class and runs out of time, then forgets to hand it in). She has an IEP, but is struggling in math, English and history. Her grades go up and down, but right now, she's essentially failing English and is borderline with math. Hanging in with history, but trending downward. I know she tries and she tries hard, but she is also not using all the accommodations provided to her such as extended time (she uses it sometimes, but most of the time says she doesn't need it) and audiobooks, bc I think she's embarrassed to use them (but she doesn't use them at home either, as far as I can tell.) She used these things at the SN school bc everyone did. She has a resource period at school.

She has a history of rushing through assignments, in part bc I think she doesn't want to be the last one finished. She also refuses to go visit her teachers during lunch, which is when they're available to help. She's rather hang with her friends. She went one time to one teacher and basically said, my mom made me come here.

She gets very defensive when we try to talk to her about her grades. It's like she thinks if she looks over her notes for an extra hour, it's all gonna get better. I don't think it will and I am worried, but I am not sure how to help her. I can't force her to see her teachers and I can't force her to use audio notes, etc. If she actually fails, she will be very upset. The worst part of failing, for her at least, is that she's an athlete as well, and we have told her that if she fails, she will not be able to play her sport anymore.

I have spoken with her teachers who keep emphasizing the audio notes, etc.

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