George C he does, indeed, play the piano and it amazes non-aural learner me how readily he can translate music he's heard into music he plays. No carrots in the world, however, will get him to practice a piece he's done with! I asked him if the start of a book was more tiring than later on and if he was building a visual in his head while he read and he was unable (or unwilling) to answer. I expect he's tired of reading questions.
2xLucky I wondered about vision issues and had some extra testing done, albeit with our optometrist, not a specialist. I'm not familiar with amblyopia (I'm going to look it up). DS does rub his eyes frequently, but mainly in spring when he suffers from hayfever. His tracking is fine and I've been watching for the convergence tells I've read about on the forum. I'll get him to experiment with font size on my kindle to see which works best for him. It will be interesting to see that result. I frequently share your thought about the umbrella, btw.
bluemagic, I told DS we're breaking out the HP#5 DVD tonight and he was over the moon. I should have remembered what a slog I found that volume. And I have El Deafo on hold, thanks for the tip.
Dude, thanks for the reality check. I was pretty relaxed about his preference for non-fiction and gave him permission to not read the final school-assigned novel last year, it was so bad, but the tired voice explanation really threw me. We've had so many issues flagged of late that I'm quick to worry. His last school year was a spectacular disaster and it is hard to tease out what issues arise from that and what might be issues we missed while working on the school situation.
DS also exhausted the school's library non-fiction offerings, repeating many of them, before turning to Calvin and Hobbes. I am going to go in search of new short and middle distance offerings, since I think he's memorized everything we already have in those categories.
