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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The biggest challenge, however, is that when a child has a language processing issue & does poorly on a math test or on math components of standardized testing, the child may not be struggling with understanding math, but with expressive writing.  This approach does put up new barriers and accommodations are harder to compensate for this new barrier.  There isn't a good way to break things down right now to confirm "this child can multiply & do calculus, but give him/her a written word problem to read, & he/she will be completely unable to process that."  I'm not saying they should be exempt - but if they excel at 80-90% of math, but struggle with the 10% that controls the presentation, how do we make that accessible?  Do more kids need auditory versions of these tests?  Do scores/grades need to be presented/tested differently?  Do teachers need to better understand accommodations?  Do they truly understand when a kid is not understanding the concepts or having a language barrier?[/quote]

Some of this makes no sense.  My child with language issues is doing on math if explained properly and someone shows him.  Giving him a verbal test with language processing makes no sense.  He is far stronger in reading than verbal skills so a written test is far better.  Your comments may work for your child but not all kids.  Every child is different and has different needs.  My child needs small class sizes with teacher who will take the time to show as well as tell.  He often does not complete his math at school as the teacher does not recognize that he needs a bit of extra help (yes, we've said something many times) and has gotten lazy and just sends the work home for us to help him with.  He does far better by keeping him age appropriate and not dumbing down the work.  I am one of the posters that strongly we should not dumb down our kids and from our experience pushing him ahead has helped with the language issues as he is exposed to higher level concepts that are interrelated.  If a child just has language processing its very different from a child who has ADD/ADHD or other learning issues.  A straight language child by school age will continue to struggle if it is not resolved by school age but for every child its going to be very different as it depends they are MERLD, Expressive, Receptive, Apraxia, etc.

You don't want to dumb down or change the curriculum.  We need to find better ways to teach all kids to understand the concepts and give more support to those who need it (SN or not).  If you change everything and dumb it down, our kids are going to struggle in college and with employment as they need to meet the same qualifications as others.  I'm ok if my child's grades are not what they should be (mainly because the teachers don't get he knows it as they don't get how to speak to him or get the information out they need) as I know my child is learning and thriving.  Hopefully the grades will come but as long as he passes that is all I care about.
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