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We had some testing done when my son was 5 and it showed that he has a visual processing delay and "emerging dyslexic tendencies." He's 7 now and in first grade, and we just found out last week that he has moderate to
severe convergence insufficiency. He needs about 10-15 sessions of
vision therapy. We're having a re-evaluation about the visual processing
in May to see if the actual processing of what he sees is still delayed.
He says that sometimes the letters on a page wiggle or float around.
He gets frustrated easily with close work and hates math especially.
He can sound out words pretty well and has about 80 sight words
memorized, but that hasn't translated into much reading by himself.
I don't know how this should influence the rest of our school year.
Should I wait on the more close-work focused stuff until after the
vision therapy so that we're only dealing with the processing problem?
This is my first year to homeschool him, so I really don't know what to
do. We've been doing a pretty relaxed schedule this year--mainly
focusing on the 3 Rs and reading lots of books aloud about subjects of interest.
severe convergence insufficiency. He needs about 10-15 sessions of
vision therapy. We're having a re-evaluation about the visual processing
in May to see if the actual processing of what he sees is still delayed.
He says that sometimes the letters on a page wiggle or float around.
He gets frustrated easily with close work and hates math especially.
He can sound out words pretty well and has about 80 sight words
memorized, but that hasn't translated into much reading by himself.
I don't know how this should influence the rest of our school year.
Should I wait on the more close-work focused stuff until after the
vision therapy so that we're only dealing with the processing problem?
This is my first year to homeschool him, so I really don't know what to
do. We've been doing a pretty relaxed schedule this year--mainly
focusing on the 3 Rs and reading lots of books aloud about subjects of interest.