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You are very fortunate that it all came out right. Had I not ensured that he learned at the elementary level, and helped on difficult subjects subsequently, my son would have fallen too far behind, even with the policy of mainstreaming that prevails. I had to get him out of the special ed classroom, and into the regular one, by upgrading his status. Then, even when almost fully mainstreamed, the support was desultory, because they merely wanted him to get by. Although he started well behind in speech, by the end of elementary school he was well ahead in significant measures, such as vocabulary. However, he still had some trouble with idiom. Grammatical points that were logical, he got down. Things that were arbitrary, as, for example, are many prepositions, he continued to have trouble with. Thus, although by his six grade evaluation he tested well ahead, he still was capable of being "fuzzy" in both comprehension and speech at odd moments. Most subjects, I could at that point count on him to learn without my attention, but there would still be emergencies, as in science, where I had to do some intensive tutoring. By now, I don't have to sweat it, thank God....... |
