Hi,

I'm new on this forum. I;ve got a son age 7,5 who has been diagnosed with auditory processing disorder. He uses an FM system in class, but this year his teacher wasn't very good with using it. We'll work on getting better usage with next years teacher in year 3.

My son very much struggles with reading, writing and maths are according standards and physical ed's and socially he is doing fine as well.

He worked so incredibly hard on his reading this year, but still managed to just keep up with the minimal expected growth rate. Which basically means he always stays behind on children in het class. He is very much frustrated with his reading. I hoped that the use of the FM system would have brought an improvement, but it didn't. Not sure if it would have if they used it consistantly.

I read information about the Dore centre and dyslexia. Does anyone of you have expirience with them and maybe with ADP? It looks like it is a lot of money and effort. Is it worth it?

First off, I think it sucks that the teacher didn't use the FM system. I do hope you have a better teacher next year. i think it's great though that your son has kept up to the minimum. A lot slip further and further back.

I looked up Dore after they advertised heavily in the NZ Herald. Wow super super expensive, totally beyond my financial means. it also seemed to me that once the child was assessed and a program set it was all up to the parents until the progress was checked. I didn't like the "this is the best way and any method is wasting your time and if you love your kids and want them to succeed this is the only way " message that seems to run through their website and advertising. I think a lot of the exercises are brain gym exercises anyway. But then again my negative thoughts might be because it is just way beyond what I can afford. I would check it out, but i would check out what other people in your area are offering too.

Have you check the spectronics website for resources you might be able to work with at home?

HI GG67,

thanks for your respons. What is spectronics? I'm just trying to find sollutions for my son and no, we don't have money on a tree either. So anything we can work on that makes sense and is affordable. I'm an Occupational Therapist, but I don't work with children so I feel I could run a program with him, but don't know enough about it, to assess him and design a program.

spectronics.co.nz

it's the place that I bought software on the recommendation of our SPELD tutor. From the newsletters I now get from them I can see that they run all sorts of learning courses for tutors and teachers in NZ and Australia. They have lots of useful info on their website too