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[b]So... would simply giving him an extra year to solidify his reading skills be enough to avoid the dreaded pullouts in the long term? Would that be leveling the playing field with the other kids, who are obviously much older than he is? Would the added 1-year maturity be enough to mitigate this particular LD?[/b]
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This was OP’s original question. Each child’s experience is going to be different and when we red shirt or not, we’ll never really know what would have happened had we taken the other path – that’s the trouble with all these personal anecdotes. So, holding back a year might make enough of a difference, or maybe not. However LDs will not go away on their own. An extra year might make a difference if the extra year includes special support. An extra year of the same old stuff probably isn’t going to help and will more likely lead to more frustration for the child.[/quote]

I think the idea behind "dreaded pullouts" is what I am stuck on. When my dd has pull outs because she is struggling at reading, I do not think of them as dreaded. I am grateful that she is getting the help she needs.  I talk about them positively with her, and she has never acted like she dreads them.  Some of her friends are in the pull outs with her.  I think you need to work on this with your ds and see if you can change his perception of pull outs from "dreaded" to hey, these pull outs are great!  [/quote]

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