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10 yr. old son is being tested for LD

Submitted by an LD OnLine user on

My son is 10yrs old and struggling in math. He has had a high-school tutor come help him for an hour and a half four days a week, his work has improved but he still doesn’t “get it”. We already have an IED in place and we had a meeting with the school staff this morning regarding further testing for a learning disorder. The counselor that is setting all of this in motion is from a different district and new to this school(she has already found a lot of discrepencies in school policies and has a few enemies at her new school), I am very thankful that she putting all of this together for us, this is all new to me, but when I talk to her she is very quiet and rather secretive about what she’s taking on with our son. Should I take this as a problem that could rupture into a bigger problem? I only want what is best for our son, I’ve known something wasn’t right when he was in the second grade and he’s been on Adderall since, but there seems to be an underlying problem. I’m sure it’s got to be a LD of some kind. Any advice on how to help him? He doesn’t have behavioral problems and he’s quite popular at school he just can’t seem to remember what happened at school that day with his assignments, they seem to disappear somewhere between school and home-I pick him up from school so I know they don’t get lost on the bus.

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