For any of you dealing with memory processing issues, do you have any suggestions for what has worked for you?
Mix of things, the biggest being special ed support. He meets 10 min. late in the day with the special ed teacher, who makes sure his binder is orderly and that everything is written in the planner. This is coaching, not doing for him, with the idea that it's just taking ages to become automatic.
The other thing is good communication with teachers and natural consequences regarding taking responsibility. Last week DS got 100 on an online test by doing the work in his head, but forgot to show the work on paper (therefore, technically a zero). We sent him into school 10 minutes early the next day, having practiced a script of what to say to the math teacher to make it right. Amazingly, he did... And he now gets the point that if you don't show work it makes a hassle later. Learning is happening...
