Christina Morrissey

Hey fellow posters!

You all were so helpful with my email a month or so ago regarding dyslexia,
I hope you can help this friend. She is on my bipolar homeschooling
e-list. Bipolar kids often have particular cognitive problems that really
effect their learning math. Have any of you had any similar experiences
and ideas that might help Dorothy? We would both appreciate any
suggestions you might have. I know she is just tearing her hair out!

Thanks so much!! Christina in Seattle
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<<<<<<Kristin, I am very impressed about your 15yo learning multiplication
and division. My 16yo still can't do either. We're doing a Survival Skills
math course, and it's just killing him. Simple things like keeping a check
register, or reading a bank statement, are incomprehensible. He just
learned a couple of years ago to know the months of the year in order, and
now he sees a banks statement with a date like 06-24-02 and he just freaks!
I explained what it means, and if he counts them off on his fingers he can
do it, but it makes him furious because he feels like they're "tricking" him.

And of course, aside from math, he's very bright, very verbal. I have him
signed up next month to take his PSATs, but who am I kidding? AS bright as
he is, this math thing is going to keep him from doing everything. How can
he go to college? How can he even do vo-tech stuff, if he cannot subtract
38-12? How can he have any job if he can't remember what time it is, or
what day it is, or what month comes next? Some days I just despair!

Dorothy>>>>>>