He is not stupid, he needs individual attention
Many of you know we have just folded up the tutoring business and getting ready to move to IL. Feeling sad to leave some of my students, especially those who have some learning difficulties. We have worked hard to boost their self esteem and got rid of the labels applied on them.
The mother of the boy who is dyslexic and has attention deficit wants me to talk to the new tutor she is going to to hire. But, it’s kind of hard to communicate when she comes from a different paradigm! She is from the old school, if a student doesn’t perform academically, it’s the problem with his IQ. She doesn’t seem to understand when I told her that this boy is very intelligent (yet can have learning difficulties). He is fine if he has individual attention of an one-on-one Tutor who uses multi-sensory approach. In fact, he has progressed leaps and bounds in the last six months, from a non-reader who can’t read “fish”, he can encode and decode multi-syllable word like “establishment”!.
Filed under Uncategorized |
Leave a Reply
