We have pulled out of DAS

After weeks of consideration, R and I made the decision to withdraw him from DAS lessons.  He felt it was too babyish for him, doing all the phonogram drills, and very boring.  I do find though he has improved in his reading for the almost two years with DAS, the progress is simply too slow.  The pace in school is moving at a much faster rate, and for someone whose reading just a little below grade, he should not be put through the standard inflexible system.

While the Orton-Gillingham method is often touted as THE only tested programme for dyslexia and there are many success stories, my internet research also turned up some parents who said it did not work for their kids.  Too many rules, too boring, too slow etc.  We fall into the latter case.  Most importantly, R is more of Stealth Dyslexia, and I do not think he ought to be put through the standard OG way of teaching.

What I also cannot understand is why did DAS not let the students bring back any of the school work home?  It was only on his last day at DAS that we were given all the work done in school from 2013! Shouldn't we be kept in the known of what's being taught in school, so that we can get the child to revise?  We may not be trained, but at the very least we can get the child to tell us or explain to us, and that in turn would have helped reinforce his lessons.  I don't get it.  To be fair, while going through the worksheet I realised DAS has taught them a lot more than I thought, but sadly we weren't shown all the work earlier to build our confidence in them.

It is time for us to get on a new path on managing dyslexia, and I hope we can find something that will help in his spelling and comprehension.