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Since math and reading are the basic foundation skills for most other academic subjects, it is critical that children develop a high level of proficiency in them early.

Until these doorways are open , the rest of education will be a major struggle.   For many kids, that is exactly what happens. Once these doorways are open, the learning process becomes much easier.  home help home help home help home help

I know this struggle well from personal experience

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My reading and math struggles
       From ADHD: A Path to Success

My repeated failure at academic tasks, particularly reading, sparked raw terror in me. In elementary school, we had regular reading circles.

Six or eight kids would sit around in a circle taking turns reading.

I would sit there in a cold sweat as my turn came closer and closer. It was my teacher's version of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum." The reading blade kept coming closer and closer.

To try to save face, I would count the number of children before my turn to read and try to calculate which paragraph I would be expected to read. Then I would go over and over this paragraph trying to work out every word. I would try to memorize it because I knew I was so anxious that there was no way I could actually read it in front of the other kids and teacher.

Despite and because of my high anxiety efforts, I usually botched even the simplest reading task. I became even more humiliated, embarrassed, angry, depressed, and degraded. I could think of few things in life worse than reading.

What was more sinister than Poe was that the reading blade did not kill you. You would have to face the reading blade the same way tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day for what seemed the rest of your life.

Several times a week a remedial reading teacher would take me and some of the other "dummies" out of the classroom for an hour or so, to practice our reading.

I was always aware of being in the "sparrow" reading group because everyone knew that it was for the dumb kids. (In spite of adult efforts, kids quickly pick up on the real facts.) And yet, I cannot remember any different procedures being used by this teacher than had been used by my regular classroom teacher.

Though her efforts were valiant and well intended, they were just another dose of the same old toxic solution that I eventually learned was the source of my problems. I made little progress.

How could I? To me, reading was associated with school, reading groups, reading out loud, peer ridicule, and poor self-image.

The harder the teacher tried, the more upset I became, the worse I did, the dumber I got. I saw this as just another opportunity to face the terror of the reading blade. I began to fight passively the very process of what felt like stuffing things down my throat. I did not learn to read until I was in the seventh grade.

Eventually, I did learn to read, not because of more sophisticated efforts by my teachers, but because I developed a driving need to know, literally. I was interested in hot rods.

I wanted to know about the most technical aspects of cam timing, fuel injection, and suspension systems.

My reading and math struggles,,, continued.

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