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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here - and yes, continue tutoring over the summer! All the other kids will regress over the summer, and your kid will make progress, closing the gap. And it is a wonderful confidence boost for a kid to go into the school year feeling ahead of the game, especially when they have been feeling so rotten about themselves.[/quote]

Also, summer is a great time for intensive tutoring.  I really think it's hard for dyslexic kids to make progress with 1x a week pull-outs or 20 minutes a day with someone who is trained in Phonographix, Orton-Gillingham or Wilson.  I'd try for 1 hr a day at least 3x a week with homework in between and appropriate reading practice during the summer.

If you have an IEP, has your school qualified you for Bookshare?  It's free and you have access to zillions of books. The ability to re-size type and change font type and background/font colors can be very helpful, as well as being able to use audio.

Learning Ally is also great, but not free.

Try to explain to your child that his brain works differently (not better not worse) and therefore he needs a different kind of reading instruction.  Ask him to give it a try for the summer, and try to convey that you are pretty sure if he works hard, he will see improvement.

FWIW, even after dyslexia and dysgraphia diagnosis, we found the reading and writing special education instruction virtually worthless.  It was really no different than the general education instruction -- just offered more intensively and with more prompts and partial answers given.  Has your son's reading improved?  If not, or if only a little, maybe his reluctance is due to the fact that he can sense internally that all the "special instruction" isn't really that helpful.

If your son is rejecting sped, ask what reading program he is being given, and what training in reading instruction the sped person and the gen ed person have.  My bet would be that neither have any real training or education in reading instruction and neither are trained in reading programs like Phonographix, Wilson, or OG.

Now, with appropriate daily instruction, our DC is a very strong reader, enjoys reading (because it's not so effortful) and totally understands that he is smart and can get stuff if he is taught in the right way.  It's totally changed his self-view, his ability to self-regulate emotionally and his mood generally. [/quote]

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