Thanks everyone for your ideas!
I don't know that the facial recognition piece is necessarily something I am going to address right now. Does that seem weird? I know recognizing people is very important socially, but my son certainly recognizes his friends outside of school and family members well; that's never been an issue.
As far as classmates go, he is the only child of his race in the class or was for two years anyhow; and I do wonder if that makes things harder. I know that I have really bad memory for faces as well, but I am better at faces that are my own race than members of other races, probably because of better familiarity at distinguishing between salient features.
At any rate, we are struggling so much with homework, organization, writing, handwriting, attention to detail, starting homework, completing homework .... and turning in assignments. I just can't see trying to improve facial recognition right now.
