Part of Carl's Lyme disease was a break from academic work. He thinker was not working great. Over the past 9 months, we have slowly returned to reading, writing, math, social studies and even science.
He needed to be built up physically first....then spirituakly, and finally academically. He began by reading simple books....ones that he could just enjoy, no real thinking required, and steadily built his reading and comprehension skills back up to almost where they were before Lyme.
Today, we went to get an evaluation from a longstanding member of the homeschooling community. She has graduated 4 of her own children and has helped scores of others, particularly those with learning disablilities. I called her on a whim that she might be interested in Carl's case....and even though he wasn't typically learning disabled, he had some special needs and circumstanmces due to his bout with Lyme. She agreed and had me bring him on down!
WHAT a LOVELY woman. She made him so comfortable....and I was able to listen in without him knowing :-)
He was so relaxed and calm....thanks to her...and I think the eval was thorough. She even had him do a writing sample. Oh, and all those years of dictation....part of the eval was dictation!!! She dictated sentences at increasing difficulty...and he had to write them after 2 readings. Hmmmmm....sounds familiar!!
There were memory tests and sequencing....math assessment etc. It took about 2 1/2 hours. We have an appointment next week to go over the results and receive recommendations of materials to help him fill any gaps she finds.
Anyway, just thought someone would want to know some positive parts of his saga
~~Faithe
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