Sean's Progress

Posted by Cindy B on October 13, 2002, 9:43 pm

Just wanted to share with everyone the progress my son Sean (8yrs) has made with Audiblox. But a little background first.

Since Kindergarten we have had problems with Sean. The teacher upon meeting him thought he would be one of the advanced ones because he had very good speech, however, he had a great deal of difficulty paying attention and completing tasks.

This continued into 1st grade, but when 2nd grade came school just became impossible for Sean. He could not read, write or do math well enough to keep up with the other children. After being tested they found that he was at a kindergarten level or 1st grade level on most things they tested him for…there were several different categories. It was frustrating, because Sean always had a good understanding of concepts such as for science and he had good reasoning skills, as long as it was all done verbally. According to the tests they concluded that he had a learning disability in reading and math so he ended up in special ed for a couple hours a day. It wasn’t of any real help, just easier work.

This April to end of July 2002 we did vision therapy with Sean, after finding he had vision problems involving slow focus change, and the ability of his eyes to work together. Mainly his right eye seemed to be the most problem. He even favored his left eye, and sometimes would cover his right eye when trying to read. He had a sneaky way of doing this I did not notice this until it was brought to my attention.

After vision therapy was done Sean did have some improvements, but they seemed rather limited. He still struggled with math, and writing. Reading had improved for the main reason he could now not loose his place, yet he was still about a year behind. It was suggested to me to try Audiblox. It became interesting to me because I saw that it worked on visual memory and sequencing. Two things I knew were problems for Sean. With some advice from Susan I could see that these skills were not just going to develop even though his vision was very good now.

We started Audiblox August 26, 2002. After six weeks the improvements were very obvious. For one he is actually doing 3rd grade math, which for him is amazing. His reading speed has improved, plus he doesn’t get stuck on near as many words. He was also incapable of writing any of his thoughts down, and now he is starting to be able to do this with some help, while before his writing was totally unreadable unless I told him letter for letter how to spell the words. The neatness of his writing has improved too. His attention span and attitude have also improved. He is getting so much more done than before. Since we have only done this for six weeks and are all ready having good progress I am now wondering what will Sean be like in a year?

Cindy.