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[quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry to hear your kid is struggling, OP! I hope he gets through this patch quickly. I also have a dyslexic second grade boy, and when he started he was very defensive and threw up all sorts of walls. He couldn't start learning until he was ready to let people see he needed help. We are at a private school, so I don't know if what we did would be helpful. First, we gave the tutor we hired free reign to build a relationship before starting the tutoring. They played games and talked for the first half dozen sessions, I think. We also arranged for my son to be pulled from the lesson he liked least to go to tutoring.

One thing we did that I was hesitant about was teach him about dyslexia, and essentially make him a proud dyslexic. We read him the Percy Jackson books (the hero is dyslexic because he is half Greek god and his brain is wired to read Greek, duh) got him beautiful picture books of Leonardo Da Vinci's sketches, had him enter a poem in a writing context for dyslexic kids. We described his testing results to him, and described how his brain is off the charts good at some stuff, and really not so good at others, but they add up to a really fantastic and neat brain type that lots of fabulous people share. So we helped him buy into the whole dyslexia-as-mixed-blessing thing. It took a few months for him to come around, but it happened, and he is now doing great. Your son will, too, OP. Hang in there.[/quote]

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