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[quote=Anonymous]PP, our DD has the same issues.  (I posted earlier that our DD has visually-based dyslexia.)  The school offers DD no services, and I believe prior posters who indicated that even when the school offers services, they might not be what your child needs.  Finding a good Orton-Gillingham tutor should help.  You can also purchase the Wilson, Barton or Lindamood-Bell materials on-line and try to implement these at home, but it takes commitment on the parents' part to learn how to use the materials and implement the program.

Our school does offer accommodations that help DD to be successful in school.  Do accommodations work for your DS?

BTW, our DD also has dysgraphia, which causes her handwriting to be slow, and she frequently misspells words, omits or juxtaposes letters, and forgets to capitalize/insert punctuation.  We work on this at home, but accommodations (typed assignments, use of Ginger predictive spell checker, not penalized for spelling/mechanics in hand-written work) help so that the dysgraphia doesn't significantly interfere with her schoolwork.

Our DD's conditions were diagnosed by way of a private neuropsych evaluation.  They conducted both educational and psychological testing, so we got a lot of insight into DD's challenges.  Her main issue is poor orthographic memory and visual-motor integration.  Her auditory processing is excellent.  We didn't know all of this until we had the in-depth testing done.  You might want to consider private testing to get more granularity on your son's areas of challenge.[/quote]

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