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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again--posted before I saw 12:22.  YES.  He is moving forward so incrementally that I think it's super-frustrating for him to exert so much effort and see so little progress.  Looks like it's time for another school meeting, yay...[/quote]

It also might help to explain that dyslexia is not a talent deficit, but rather a talent difference.  Dyslexics actually have visual processing strengths that may make reading hard but make other things EASIER.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-upside-of-dyslexia.html?_r=0

We constantly tell our kids that school is like a factory -- it's built for certain kinds of brains and to turn out certain kinds of thinking.  The kid who can recognize subtle pattern differences across a wide field might turn up important and interesting scientific observation, but can't churn out a paper that requires citing to research texts.  Like any mass production effort, the education production line isn't a good fit for brain types that are not in the "majority" and it isn't a good fit for turning out thinking that isn't mainstream.  Just because you struggle in school, doesn't mean that you are stupid, and it certainly doesn't mean that you will struggle in life.  Once you get into college and the work world, where you can choose what and how to study and do, most people find themselves way more successful than they were in HS.

The "it gets better" mantra is applicable here too... [/quote]

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