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[quote=Anonymous]My DC has mild dyslexia (and ADHD and dysgraphia). Diagnosed in 2nd grade and did remediation until 4th.

DC felt dumb until 4 th grade because they were slow to read and write. Something sort of clicked in 4th grade and they realized they were bright, just slow. That’s still true - almost in high school and DC is a very good student but requires extra time on tests and homework assignments which are reading and writing heavy take more time than I expect they do for other kids. History classes have become and ucexpected time suck.

Math facts were extremely painful to learn, and slow. I think I got frustrated because my DC actually has an amazing memory, but not for math facts. Math for a lot better when they hit algebra/more theoretical math and they were allowed to use a calculator (the whole class). Short math word problems were also hard.

My DC hates reading aloud at school now because while they don’t struggle with most words, names and words that can’t easily be decoded are still hard - so when DC learning about the Renaissance, so many names and places to mispronounce! I’m sure it was frustrating for my DC.

Spelling is also still atrocious but spell check mostly catches it. I try to ask DC to proofread everything but they mostly want to do things on their own. [/quote]

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