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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1649: how did you get your school to put things in a more visual form?[/quote]

We have full testing from Vanderbilt researchers, so we kept re-directing the school to actually follow their recommendations. And in that report is to make the lessons as visual as possible, because MERLD kids often have very, very weak auditory working memories. So you need to get that lesson into their visual memory....my MERLD child's visual memory is outstanding.

So we do sight word reading instead of phonics, we do Touch Math (he's now dividing with it) and we get them to revamp the science into as hands-on and visually supported as possible with visual study guies. We've skipped a lot of the Social Studies lessons except for the projects, because they are so abstract and talky. Writing is done with pictures from his life, so he has all the visual subtext that goes along with them.

Once the school system stopped fighting us and actually modified their curriculum, my son's learning frustration dropped immensely and his learning increased rapidly. They wasted way more time fighting us than making the simple switches to a visual curriculum.

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