amylou, thanks for the NUMATS recommendation - it's good to hear that other kids have had positive experiences with the courses. We'd love to enroll ds in one of them but.... first I need to get him into an achievement test to get into the program (I have achievement test anxiety *for* my ds, so haven't officially signed him up for Explore or anything like that yet - he's 2E and is challenged with some very simple things such as reading math signs correctly, so even though he's working way ahead of grade level and has high ability scores, he sometimes struggles showing that knowledge on achievement tests... which means I... in turn... struggle with anxiety over even signing him up for them!). I guess I need to get over myself, huh?
Thanks!
polarbear