my4cowboys
06-09-2009, 11:27 AM
A little background, ds, age 9 was diagnosed with dyslexia, processing issues, and working memory issues earlier this spring. Yesterday, he started with IM (loved it!), and CogMed at home. This morning, he woke up at 7:15, just begging to do CogMed right away. Because we don't have any video games of any kind at our house, he thinks he has died and gone to heaven with CogMed. So fun - he loves the RoboRacing at the end! Also, he starts with his Barton tutor this afternoon and is excited - we met her yesterday and her name is Begonia. Like the flower. Super nice, energetic, and will be a lot of fun to be with. YEA!
I'm just so happy because his diagnosis took about 3 months to figure out even where to go to get tested, and then waiting for the end of the school year (and baseball season here) before starting with everything. He'll be going to the clinic every day, either for IM or tutoring (luckily, it's only about 5 miles away), and then we'll do CogMed every day at home for the next several weeks. In the fall, we'll stop with the Barton tutor and pick up where he left off at home.
I know it's just the second day, but it's such a good feeling to actually be *doing* something about all of this, instead of just having that nagging feeling that something's not quite right, but not knowing how to fix it.
Hooray for all of our special needs kids who are working hard to overcome what they're dealing with!
I'm just so happy because his diagnosis took about 3 months to figure out even where to go to get tested, and then waiting for the end of the school year (and baseball season here) before starting with everything. He'll be going to the clinic every day, either for IM or tutoring (luckily, it's only about 5 miles away), and then we'll do CogMed every day at home for the next several weeks. In the fall, we'll stop with the Barton tutor and pick up where he left off at home.
I know it's just the second day, but it's such a good feeling to actually be *doing* something about all of this, instead of just having that nagging feeling that something's not quite right, but not knowing how to fix it.
Hooray for all of our special needs kids who are working hard to overcome what they're dealing with!