by Farmfresh » Wed Jan 03, 2018 3:33 pm
Not a problem. Kid has apraxia of speech. Geek likes to say he has a malfunctioning sound card. He has been doing private speech classes (at $40 a pop out of pocket) since he was 2 once a week and was also doing a second speech therapy class via school district until they dropped him because he was too good to "warrant further sessions". (that happened shortly before we changed his school) He is on his way to his regular private speech class as we speak.
He really fits in with this "broken wiring" family. Hubby had dyslexia so bad he did not learn to read until middle school. D1 and D2 are also both dyslexic. Geek is dysgraphic, which is similar to the dyslexia, but effects the output instead of input. Geek could always read well, with none of the problems of dyslexia, but writing and speaking were always difficult for him. Kid is a lot like Geek in many ways. Meanwhile ALL of the "wired weird-os" in my family also test in the gifted range. That makes Kid's apraxia unusual as well, because it often occurs with other issues ... like autism or retardation of some kind. Our Kid has a giant vocabulary along with that broken sound card. It actually makes things easier because if he can't say a certain word or make us understand what he is trying to say, he has a great vault of alternative words and synonyms that really help him get his meaning across.
When we classified kids like mine... gifted with learning disabilities... they are called "double exceptional students". Talk about being difficult at school. Everything is set up for either geniuses or learning disabled and they really don't/didn't fit into any existing programs. It was a constant battle to get them each all the things that they needed to thrive and succeed at public school. Yet another reason why I am glad that Kid is now going to private school now. Teachers are just better.
Not a problem. Kid has apraxia of speech. Geek likes to say he has a malfunctioning sound card. He has been doing private speech classes (at $40 a pop out of pocket) since he was 2 once a week and was also doing a second speech therapy class via school district until they dropped him because he was too good to "warrant further sessions". (that happened shortly before we changed his school) He is on his way to his regular private speech class as we speak.
He really fits in with this "broken wiring" family. Hubby had dyslexia so bad he did not learn to read until middle school. D1 and D2 are also both dyslexic. Geek is dysgraphic, which is similar to the dyslexia, but effects the output instead of input. Geek could always read well, with none of the problems of dyslexia, but writing and speaking were always difficult for him. Kid is a lot like Geek in many ways. Meanwhile ALL of the "wired weird-os" in my family also test in the gifted range. That makes Kid's apraxia unusual as well, because it often occurs with other issues ... like autism or retardation of some kind. Our Kid has a giant vocabulary along with that broken sound card. It actually makes things easier because if he can't say a certain word or make us understand what he is trying to say, he has a great vault of alternative words and synonyms that really help him get his meaning across.
When we classified kids like mine... gifted with learning disabilities... they are called "double exceptional students". Talk about being difficult at school. Everything is set up for either geniuses or learning disabled and they really don't/didn't fit into any existing programs. It was a constant battle to get them each all the things that they needed to thrive and succeed at public school. Yet another reason why I am glad that Kid is now going to private school now. Teachers are just better.
