I wouldn't enroll him in Kumon - as noted above, it's huge on drill and repetition. We have one of our dds enrolled, but she needs the repetition - it is all worksheets and it would have been the end of our dysgraphic ds if we'd sent him there! I do like the early elementary Kumon workbooks, but not for a child with fine motor dysgraphia.

Our ds also can't stand listening to the Kahn academy videos.... He says it's the voice, but I think it also moves too slowly for him. That said, he's never looked at them for math, he's watched science videos.

Our dysgraphic ds after-schooled himself in math using Aleks. I do think it's worth a look for dysgraphic kids simply because it's all computer based, no writing, and for a child who picks up concepts quickly there isn't a ton of extra repetition of working problems required before advancing. Each lesson has a written explanation online, very basic, so even though you aren't into math, I'm guessing that you could help your ds when/if he needs it by reading the explanation. If you found something he likes, like double digit multiplication, for instance, or conversely somethng he had trouble with, you can create custom "quizzes" to give him extra practice. We found that the pie slice graphic where each module completed helps build a slice worked great for motivation for our kids too - they could easily see they were moving forward. the other thing that was extremely useful for me later on was the ability to generat reports showing what ds had mastered that are tied to stare curriculum standards... we were able to use those when advocating (successfully) to subject-accelerate ds in math.

Please know I'm not a sales rep for Aleks! It just worked very well for our ds.

Another idea - diversion! My ds was very curious at that age - he had so many things he wanted to learn about I couldn't keep up with it all.... However.... Because he had a lot of interests, when something like this came up, I was able to usually get his mind off of it by giving hm something else learning related to sink his teeth into and he'd forget about the other thing.

Good luck!

polarbear

Last edited by polarbear; 02/22/13 10:49 AM.