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[quote=Anonymous]MY DC had MERLD early on and was diagnosed with ADHD and dysgraphia later. He had reading issues but was never formally diagnosed with dyslexia maybe because he hog a lot of reading support and speech therapy even before K and he went for a few years to a dyslexia SN school.

DC later mainstreamed back to public and took French. His sister and I both speak French, and so we figured it would be easier to support him. He took FR I and II and then repeated Fr II in 9th grade, even though he had a B the year before because, he himself knew he couldn't do French III.

TBH, he has a very hard time separating out different sounds and associating them with different letter combinations. Language teaching is awful in public school and there was no sound/symbol reading instruction at all (even though, legally, there should be - but the public school can't even pull this together in English).

It's also very hard for DC to learn grammar structures without explicit teaching Plus, languages are extremely boring for DC. TBH, I don't think there's any language DC could learn that would be easy except, maybe, ASL.

DC quit after Fr II and took a rigorous load of science and math instead. It worked out fine - he went to a good college and is happy.

In MCPS you can substitute some kind of "advanced technology education" for the 2 years of language requirement.  Some kids do 1 year of 2 different languages because the first year is easier.

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