You guys are amazing. I am so touched by your generous thoughtfulness about my daughter! I want to follow up and let you know the latest changes in her life. DD turned 7 in August.
2 big things have happened for the good:
We got her hooked up with a Barton method reading tutor for her dyslexia. She did 4 weeks/5 days a week over the summer. It turned her from a non-reader, at the end of 1st grade, into a fluent reader at the beginning of 2nd grade. We continue with this private tutor 2 x per week. And DD's confidence and happiness in reading has skyrocketed. So has her performance.
2. We were luckily able to switch her out of her very conventional GT immersion public school in the midwest, to a less conventional Quaker Friends school here where they are able to linger over and go more in-depth into their studies. From the first week, she was a markedly different child.
The GT specialist psychologist who was seeing her to unravel the math and performance anxiety that had developed in her GT school, pronounced her anxiety-free after a month after switching schools.
It has been a total transformation from an un-characteristically scared, frozen, non-performing child in the GT, high pressure, rapid paced public school; into an amazingly confident, math-enjoying, outgoing, happy girl. This school is able to take the time to allow children to marinate in their thoughts and interests.
Their faculty is also of a fairly intellectual, well-educated bent.
She is so happy.:) It would be interesting to see how this unwinding of performance anxiety would impact her testing.
I may take her back for a follow-up SB-5 at some point.
So far, so good.
Thank you!
