My oldest son, who just turned 18 and is in his second year of college struggled with reading too.
When he was in kinder they told me he was ADHD, that I needed to get him tested and on meds. I told them my son has a right to be educated without medications so I suggest you figure it out. They tested him and found out he is gifted not ADHD. At eight years old he was doing my college homework. He would do my homework along with me. He struggled with reading until he was in second grade and then just took off. He hated school, had problems with social interactions with his peers and a host of other problems, all related to being gifted. I finally pulled him out and home schooled him.
I do have kids with ADHD, two of them, and one is on meds and one is not. The one on meds cannot function without them so I am not against meds but it's also not the first thing I do.
M's first word was bird and he said it at 10 months. A bird was flying over us, he pointed at it and said, very clearly, bird.
At a year he pointed at the cubboard in the kitchen and said "buzzz." I had no idea what he was doing. Finally I picked him up and told him to show me. He once again pointed at a box and said "buzzz." When I pulled the box out it was Honey Nut Cheerios. We finally figured it out that my Grandmother, who read to him all the time, would make a buzz sound for bee and that is what he was doing. He wanted the cereal but did not have the words to say it so made the sound to get me to get the box for him.
He was talking in 3 -4 word sentences at 16 months. An example is "I want that." He sat up, crawled and walked at the "normal" ages. He was my first child so I did not realize he was gifted, I thought all kids did it.
When he was in kinder they told me he was ADHD, that I needed to get him tested and on meds. I told them my son has a right to be educated without medications so I suggest you figure it out. They tested him and found out he is gifted not ADHD. At eight years old he was doing my college homework. He would do my homework along with me. He struggled with reading until he was in second grade and then just took off. He hated school, had problems with social interactions with his peers and a host of other problems, all related to being gifted. I finally pulled him out and home schooled him.
I do have kids with ADHD, two of them, and one is on meds and one is not. The one on meds cannot function without them so I am not against meds but it's also not the first thing I do.
M's first word was bird and he said it at 10 months. A bird was flying over us, he pointed at it and said, very clearly, bird.
At a year he pointed at the cubboard in the kitchen and said "buzzz." I had no idea what he was doing. Finally I picked him up and told him to show me. He once again pointed at a box and said "buzzz." When I pulled the box out it was Honey Nut Cheerios. We finally figured it out that my Grandmother, who read to him all the time, would make a buzz sound for bee and that is what he was doing. He wanted the cereal but did not have the words to say it so made the sound to get me to get the box for him.
He was talking in 3 -4 word sentences at 16 months. An example is "I want that." He sat up, crawled and walked at the "normal" ages. He was my first child so I did not realize he was gifted, I thought all kids did it.
) had a horrible time in the lower grades. His 1st grade teacher essentially said we need to medicate him. And he was a title I kiddo who didn't learn to read until 2nd grade. But once he had the individual attention he learned in a week. Now that he is in the upper grades (just finished 8th) and he is in advanced math/science and honors English/social studies he is much less squirrelly. It also too maturity.
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