Case Study: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, Old School

Description of the student

“J” is a ten-year-old fraternal twin boy who is going into 4th grade in September of 2016. He has been diagnosed this past year, with phonological dyslexia and ADHD. Phonological dyslexia is when a person has the inability to sound out words, especially nonsense words. This form of dyslexia is the most common type. Often people with dyslexia have additional problems such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This disorder is characterized by severe and chronic problems in regulating attention and activity. “ J” attends a private school for children with special needs. His parents held both him and his brother back a year (otherwise they would be in 5th grade) after they moved to a different school district. His twin brother goes to a different private school than “J” and is in a general education classroom. His physical traits are of a normal, athletic ten-year-old boy; although he was born pre-mature, which makes him slightly underweight for his age, his twin brother who is also pre-mature and other students in the same age bracket. For “J’s “ summer reading assignment, he needed to read a story of interest and answer questions in a packet given to him from his school. The book that was chosen by ‘J” was called Diary of a Wimpy kid; Old School. This books

I also found that most of the time he would play with girls around his age or younger rather than boys the same age as him. When he interacted with people older than him although, he asked a lot of questions, he became interested with what they were talking about. When I was talking to his parents or other teachers he would want to be included in our conversations, especially since he knew that we were talking about