I'm also wondering if he's a likely candidate, or if the process is so selective it is a long-shot. If the latter, application is perhaps a project for a less-crisis riddled month.
Many thanks,
There is some of both, so I would recommend putting together a 'quick and dirty' application right now, and depend on them asking for more info later in the less-crisis months to come.
For Portfolio, would he be willing to
a) talk while he writes his math so that it could be video taped his thinking process, and send a copy of the worksheet or photo of the white board to support the video.
b) we used to call an activity "Mommy will be your magic blackboard" when DS couldn't check his Math because he couldn't read it. I'd go to the white board and magically record his thoughts (he's say them aloud) and make corrections, all the while pretending that he was able to cast his thoughts right onto the board. If you had someone else video the whole process it would be more believable.
or you could take one of this illegible pages, and handwrite your own translation version with his help, and send both.
3 more hints:
1 - use ruled notebook paper rotated 90 degrees, so the columns line up.
2- look for graph paper with large squares, so he puts one digit in each square (or print it off the computer/Internet)
3- Keep telling him: Tree's love to die to help children learn Math
All of those seemed to help my DS at age 7-9. I had to repeat the tree phrase every time he got tiny or balked at me using just one page per division problem.
Best Wishes,
Grinity
