Grace's post-test results with Learning RX

I am blown away!!! I received her results today and in the words of her test administrator, "She rocked that thing!"

Here's a breakdown for anyone interested... probably my mom at least. :D I will post it with the age she tested IN at first, then the age she tested OUT at. The program lasted about 8 months. She will be 9 years old in a few weeks.

Long term memory
9 yr old
10.7 yr old

Retrieval Fluency
7.7 yr old
12.6 yr old

Short-term memory
6.5 yr old
8.2 yr old

Auditory Work Memory
6.3 yr old
13 yr old

Working memory
6.4 yr old
10.3 yr old

Visual processing
13 yr old
13 yr old

Logic and reasoning
6.4 yr old
13.1 yr old

Executive processing speed
6.8 yr old
9 yr old

Processing speed
6.5 yr old
8.3 yr old

Word Attack
7.6 yr old
15.4 yr old

Reading fluency
6 yr old
7.7 yr old

Auditory processing
8.7 yr old
17 yr old!!!!!

Spelling of sounds
7.7 yr old
10.6 yr old

Math fluency
6.3 yr old
8.3 yr old

As you can see, she really did rock Learning RX! The change in her is astonishing; truly! She progessed in every area and most importantly now has reasoning and processing skills far beyond her years. As the guy said today, if you have those two skills, you can go far in life. We also still have all the "stuff" that comes with the program and will continue using it, just to a less intense degree. Reading fluency just needs practice but with word attack skills like that, it's just a matter of time.

From auditory processing disorder to processing skills of a 17 year old... how incredible is that??? This program is absolutely perfect for anyone with learning disabilities but is astonishing for APD.

Those of you who know her or have heard me talk of this, know the intense frustration she has experienced at being unable to learn. This program gave her every tool she needs and was worth every single penny (and it was ALOT of pennies).

I think she can start teaching homeschool now. I'll just sit back and watch. lol

Back to school

I wasn't quite sure if I wanted to start school today because my schedule was still not just right (AND I accidentally labeled Grace's file system starting with next weeks date). However, the kids woke up crazy early, brushed teeth & hair, made beds (and even made mine while I was in the shower!) and did chores without being asked...all while I was getting breakfast ready. They did all that because they were soooo excited that school was starting. How can you not love that??? So, we did school.

We started off with a smiley breakfast

Then we went outside for first day pictures. It took a few shots before everyone cooperated.

Take one:

Kate was NOT going to smile because she had flip flops on and the grass was touching her toes. VERY unacceptable to her!

Take two:

There's always one clown in a class and Tony is happy to fill that role.

And take three:

Ah... perfection!

Then we went in the house and looked at all our new books. Kate immediately dragged out Grace's Learning RX since that is what she will be doing this year (among other things). Grace & Tony went to their respective areas and started working although Grace is mostly teacher led still so she didn't do much. Tony however is quite independent in his school work so we didn't see him for awhile except for an occasional question.

Kate and I finished Learning RX and Grace and I started working on her things. It was rather chaotic but she has learned to block out the chaos so she did fine. Kate is supposed to be playing with special toys that only come out one day a week but that was just not her thing today; she wanted to be in our business. lol

Once we all got done with the big subjects, it was lunch time. Daddy was ready to take me shopping for my new school desk so we snatched him away from the base and took off to the store. Fun time there, I love my new desk which will be delivered later this week. We also bought Grace a chair for her desk. She has the most adorable desk ever (I'll take pictures later this week) but has always had trouble finding a chair that put her high enough to write on it. Today we found it - in PINK! What more could a girly-girl ask for??

After dropping Daddy back off at work, we came home and wrote up our first day papers. This is just a paper where they write their names, height/weight, favorite color, favorite movie, favorite food, etc. Then I put their individual first day school picture on it and file it away. The highlight of that whole paper is they get to write what they want to be when they grow up. Tony wants to be a published author (big time published, not self published like he did before), Grace wants to be a missionary and Kate wants to be Spidergirl. Cool, those are do-able. :)

We finished the night off with dinner and Daddy reading Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle to the kids. So although it did not go as planned, the day was perfect.