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Post by hsmom on Sept 17, 2012 12:33:54 GMT -5
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Post by zippity on Sept 26, 2012 1:19:45 GMT -5
Just checking in since I have been offline for so long. I have to concur with the member who posted a tutor was more beneficial for them than CogMed. The same holds true for my daughter who is now in her senior year (yay!). She did CogMed in 8th grade as part of a settlement. My daughter did not retain the gain it seemed she made initially in her naming skills when she did CogMed. I saw the change but it didn't last. She still cries some days and says she feels dumb. She bemoans how hard it is for her to recall terms and names as well as remember what she reads so it means extra work for her. I strongly wish the place she took the CogMed would allow for tuneups without having to pay all over but the place we worked with does not.
We have been with one private tutor since 6th grade. She continues to work with my daughter on her language based deficits. In addition, my daughter regularly sets up after school appointments with her teachers to review lessons and gain a better understanding of the information she missed because she processes so slowly. She has come to understand why she use to think some of her teachers were not good teachers. She now concedes she might have missed a portion of what they were teaching and she no longer blames all of them for delivering disjuncted lessons. She went back on her ADHD meds in her junior year. Meds help with her some focus issues but she is the first to acknowledge they are of no help with her Dyslexia which impedes her ability to remember the names of concepts she says just confuse her brain when she tries to wrap her head around them. She has an excellent mind for math so she actually likes that part of Physics, the Algebra and Trigonometry but not the concept terminology. She tried to drop Physics because the terminology became overwhelming very quickly but the teacher agreed to an accommodation her junior high math teacher recommended. I have met with every math teacher since to educate them on my daughter and ask for their assistance. Her Physics teacher allows her to bring, and refer to, a card with a list of the terminology during testing. She references the list when a problem stumps her and as she says "a light bulb goes off", and then she recalls how to proceed. Everyone marvels at her math skills. They also are amazed at how stumped she gets over the language based portion of her lessons but when they work with her they realize she is not lazy, or faking it. They always say they couldn't fathom how she really struggles until they work with her one on one.
To this day her best course of action to stay on top of her studies has been to work with a tutor or teacher. This does not improve her weak short term memory and slow processing of information. The ability to sit with her teachers for additional after school support, either one on one or with a classmate or two, has made all the difference in the world whereas the affects of CogMed have been hard to measure and appear to not have been lasting over the years. Her ability to advocate for her needs and get the help when she needs it has also attributed to my daughter's current successes.
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Post by healthy11 on Sept 26, 2012 6:48:14 GMT -5
Zippity, thank you for "checking in" and sharing your daughter's experiences. (I don't want to sidetrack this discussion thread, but what plans is she making for after high school?)
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