Tools?

[Super_Mom]

Hey community , was wondering what tools you’ve used to help with reading . My son has ADHD/ODD and struggles severely with math and reading . He’s in the 3rd grade still trying to read 1st grade materials. Help!!!!

[Onthemove1971]

Does your son have an educational plan ( 504 plan or IEP)?

[Super_Mom in reply to Onthemove1971]

Yes he has a IEP he receives Speach, OT and Counseling.

[MeadowLane5]

Hello Super_Mom,Outschool.com has a great affordable class called multi sensory reading and writing for kids with dyslexia class. My daughter took that class 3 times a week for several months and saw great results. She only stopped taking class as her schedule was too full and her school was offering an after school class that is similar. Schools are receiving extra money to help kids with pandemic academics loss. Perhaps ask your child’s school if they will be offering a similar class as this is what your child needs?

Hope this helps - I know the struggle

[Onthemove1971]

Book share-( book share.org) children who have an IEP can apply for this service. It is an online library that has many.. many downloadable books ( pleasure and textbooks). This service uses an App that you can set to highlight the sentences/words as it reads. This will allow him to visually follow the words and listen at the same time, which could really help with reading. They are an amazing non-profit that focuses in helping kids/people read who, have print disabilities. It is easy the apply, just scan and upload his IEP and apply. The download an app, for reading and search the site for the material he wants to,read. It would be great to get him to look for books he is excited to read in addition to what is required in school.

Hope this helps.

[Inspyrdbyu in reply to Onthemove1971]

This is similar to what I tried with my son as well. Worked for me! I think their brain is just having a little trouble connecting the visual with the audio. Also, helped him with comprehension because he wasn’t so concentrated on figuring out the word itself, and was able to see the story they were telling. Good luck!

[SurvivorFan]

We have found IXL.com to be extremely helpful with Math. My son really likes it and you can move at your pace. He went from being below average in math skills for his IEP review going into kindergarten to now doing 1st grade math while in kindergarten. I also recommend the program childrenlearningreading.org

This we have found the most success with because after you get everything printed/laminated it's very easy to implement in your day. You do a series of flashcards 2 or so times a day that only take 5 minutes to do. He is now in the advanced reading group at school because of this.

[Onthemove1971]

We can not say enough wonderful things about Varsitytutors.com..While they are pricey, we have tried a number of tutoring ( Huntington, Kumon, etc) companies that were not the right fit for us. Variety Tutors have been amazing, professional and everyone is invested in helping our son be successful in each class.

[Redpanda5]

Sounds like you’ve got some great suggestions already.

One of my sons struggled with reading in early elementary school too. He was paired with a reading specialist at the school who learned at a conference to read sing, songy books with him to increase fluency. Kids get so frustrated when they ready all choppy. Anyway, it helped him immensely so I thought I would share!

He also liked the books “You Read To Me And I’ll Read To You,” which is also sing songy where the parent reads part of the story and the child reads the other part. Good luck!

[EssEm]

This sounds like my son, who has ADHD and learning disabilities in reading (dyslexia), writing and math fluency. I would push your IEP team for educational testing to identify learning disabilities and then get those services added to your IEP. Books on dyslexia that I have found very helpful are "Dyslexia Advocate" by Kelli Sandman-Hurley and "Overcoming Dyslexia" by Sally Shaywitz. Sending you love and support ♥️♥️

[Super_Mom in reply to EssEm]

Thank you kindly. He has an IEP and he’s already receiving Speech, OT, and Counseling. I don’t think there’s other services that’s I’m aware of .

[Onthemove1971 in reply to Super_Mom]

Yes, there are many educational services: extra time, seating, charts, organizational ( this is a limited list of accommodations) and specialist that can do both one-on-one teaching and can go into the classroom to help. There are also modifications they can make like only odd or even problems.. etc.

[Super_Mom in reply to Onthemove1971]

thank you I am looking into it now.

[Coconut12346]

We have been there too! We found that having him read the books that he likes is the best. Mine loves history, so we started with The Who Was series when he has in 3rd grade. I would read him one page and he would read the next. We did that at night and even used a couple of the books for school projects. That series has interesting biographies and information on historical places around the world. For math we got extra help with an application called Xtra Math, this was to mainly learn his multiplication tables. So instead of pushing all day, we had him do 5 minutes everyday, even on weekends and vacations. He really disliked doing it , but really it was only a few minutes a day and he got the basics down quickly and painlessly.