no stories to share, but that's lovely Soozy and he's every right to be proud..well done that young man 

Yeah, go you Soozy! and well done him. Onward and upward 

Thank you - he stayed over last night and I couldn't stop him playing on it (it's learning in the form of a game). he was just so proud showing his dad (my son) what he could do when he came to pick him up. My son had tears in his eyes (i know that's sentimental but it's true) I just wish this technology was around when my son was a boy. I adore my eldest son he works in the family business and I'm so proud of him but I know he feels inferior because his younger brother and sister went to uni.

I'm just over the moon with this latest development that engages the 'computer generation'.

I can understand your son fully, he's proud of his wee lad and rightfully so 

awww Sooz..  

have I ever told you about my brother..    profoundly dyslexic, in remedial classes throughout school, only got diagnosed when he was 15.  Left school with 1 o level .. in art.   One arse of a teacher basically told him he needed to bulk up cos his best bet was to work in construction or ground work.

six months after leaving school my mum, in dispair dragged him out of bed and down to the [then] careers office.   There he was placed on a YTS scheme with a computer company...  as a trainee programmer..     He says he sat there and looked at the code and for the first time ever he could understand it, and read it, the way those around him did.  (dunno why...  but for some reason he;s not dyslexic with code).

5 years later, he'd risen to freelance consulting..    he drove past his old school, in his new Lotus Elise...  and jauntily beeped his horn at the twatty teacher that had written him off. 

It improved his ability to read alphanumeric stuff too.    The first book he ever read, was the year he started the YTS scheme...   it was Dune!  We were gobsmacked..   from struggling to read an article in a red top paper..   to reading a dirty great book like Dune!

 Nice one Soozy  & Ditty!

Yeah!  

Yay! Ditty, another good story. I love hearing about things like this 

That's a lovely story Ditty. i know from experience that the brain doesn't quite work in the same way as 'normal' teaching dictates. it really is about finding a way in. I soooooooooo hope I've found it for my grand son .............i do feel that i let my son down but it really wasn't for the want of trying. I learn a lot from my husband - a very intelligent and successful man (through physical hard work and determination) but after thirty four years of marriage i can kind of unscramble his brain!

A Brilliant step forward for him Soozy! 

That is such a lovely positive story Soozy.

Your eldest son, and his son should be proud and quite rightly so. And so should you.

Your thread is so heartwarming. 

I shouldn't beat yourself up thinking you let your son down Sooz..    for a start, life is so hectic when your family is younger...  but for another, I know from experience just how little dyslexia was understood ...   my brother is only 37..    it took til his final year in school to get a diagnosis... yet he had been placed in the "slow" groups in every subject..   yet when you talked to him it was obvious he wasn't stupid...    Yet it took them til he was 15.

I have wondered if perhaps my mum should have questioned it..    but it was just how things were back then...    some kids got labelled as slow learners, and that was it...   there wasn't the follow up that there is now to find out why, and explore other teaching methods.

My mum was brilliant with my daughter... it was my mum who taught her to read, her numbers...  I was working..   but Mum had the time & the patience to sit with her..   I think this kind of thing is where grandparents can come into their own.. 

Oh & re: pencil control...     as controversial as it is...   my kids were always ahead with dexterity which we put down to playing on console games (this was one of the only ways I could get my boy to attempt to read anything...    the way I saw it...  who cares if its text on the Mario game rather than the dull Spot the Dog book).

Ditty ........I took my son to the Dyslexia Institute (30 miles away) and got him officially diagnosed - not a lot of point as the area that we lived in didn't recognise Dyslexia then. We live close to a border so got him into a secondary school in an area that did recognise it .............not a lot of point really as they were worse than useless.

I fully understand though how hard it is for schools as you really do need to get right inside the childs head to understand how they see things. I guess I was too busy with three kids close together for my son - also I've learnt a lot more over the years. I'm determined to crack it with my little Harry though!