Aeh, thank you for your response. The way you described how it must be frustrating for him to not be able to communicate what he thinks strikes home. He really does stumble over his words at times and he just doesn't communicate well.
And your thoughts about how his school year progresses mirror my own, pretty much. We are having the first an iep meeting soon. I'm not sure what to expect, but I hope to address some of these issues.
I do have the achievement scores. They did the WIAT-III
Total reading-125
Basic reading-133
Early reading skills-121
Word reading-124
Psuedoword decoding -131
Reading comprehension-115
Written expression-126
Sentence composition-132
Spelling-121-she made a note that he relied heavily on memorization and that if he didn't know how to spell a word, he refused to sound it out. But she also said that when a word was written in the prompt, he preferred to try to spell it on his own.
Mathmatics- 135
Math problem solving-133
Numerical operations- 132
Oral language- 119
Listening comprehension- 109- she noted these last two scores are significantly lower than would be expected given his ability level of 143
Oral expression-123
When I spoke to her on the phone, she said that he is learning everything that he is expected to know and is even above average-superior. No learning disability was found. But he did qualify for an iep because of his activity level
