SLOW learner kid.

patience is what your friend needs to have. shouting and hitting the child will just make him scared and that makes him forget more the words that he knows already. he is more focus on the mothers hands than the one he is reading or learning. where does the kid go to school? public or private school? alam mo naman dito sa pinas... their are a lot of kid studying in public school so teachers dont have much time to teach them one by one. i have four kids and the youngest is a slow learner but now that she is in her sixth grade is okay already... but i had problems with her when she was on grade 1 up to grade 3. patience is the key word here, tell your friend if ever naiinis na sya take a break first then start again, kawawa naman kasi ung bata napapalo. goodluck

I think you should report her for the child sake. Doing this to your child is not going to help them read any better, in fact I think it must make them worse. The worse thing you can do is put pressure on a child and even worse punish them for making a mistake with their reading. She might be your friend and it would probably be hard to do, but she should be reported as I think it sounds like child abuse. Hope this helps.

My son was at the end of 4th grade and still reading at an early 1st grade level. He had learning disabilities. Instead of yelling at her son, she should be talking to the school, the teacher, the principal and be on them not on the kid. The kid is probably more frustrated at his inability then the mother. He needs love and support from Mom and capable teachers at school. She should get him started with additional work from professional now, not waiting for anything summer vacation, next year or a break. The sooner that child get helps and begins to make progress the happier he will be. My son did eventually catch up in school, but his grades were never great. I blame the schools not him!

I have a nine year old son with a Learning Disability, although he is smart and has been jumped up a grade in 1st, he aslo has a brain disorder that at times causes him to be a slow learner. I will admitt that it is often hard and I do get frustrated, but I always try and keep in mind the situation at hand, and imagine how hard it is for him to accept his disability. I am thankful that I had the opportunity to work in The Special Education Field for seven years and have learned alot that could benefit him. There are different ways to teach them, but the one that I find trully catches his attention and interest is creating projects. We start be reveiwing each sound of a word and he gets an opportunity to come up with a different word for each sound. Then we spell the wourd outloud and figure which word has almost the same spelling.... we then review the word at least three times, I have him make up sentences with his word of choice and then write it on a poster board. He then repeats the sentence and we move on. With each new word he has to make up a sentence that we can use to connect to the previous one. Once the board is full, I then have him tell the story. I also create flash cards for each word on the poster board and have him review them befor trying to read the story. All this takes us a whole week, sometimes even two to accomplish, but it is a fun and great way for him to learn, but most importantly "HE ENJOYS IT!" I hope you have an opportunity to tell this to your friend, and she can understand that it is NEVER okay to hit a child with any disability! And that the key to helping her child is finding things that interest him....

Of course it's not !! It's out rageous that you would even stand by and let that happen without saying anything to her!! In Australia that is not something that is acceptable in society and i dont think i could watch someone hurting their child infront of me constantly like that. I have a special needs childs who is very demand and has enough communication issues without trying to beat my opinion into him all the time. I think a smack teachs nothing more than a smack hurts. sometimes they are necessary but just with a hand for a good reason, not like this!! Slapping them everytime they get a word wrong how about supporting them and being a real mother and trying to teach them how sound out the words and sounds, letters and syllables. Maybe a new school or a tutor?? I dont think a slap in the head makes you any smarter.