Thanks, Bluemagic and all. We did not find that backing off made any difference at all in school achievement, the missed work and unanswered emails from his teachers to him only snowballed until they contacted me. So this year we are looking for accommodations. What kinds of accommodations are in place for English, which is also DS' problem area (well, anything involving writing, including labs. Wow, that was a lot of -ing endings in a row)