Xander's assessment part 1

I've decided to try an online curriculum site and see how it goes. It is very much a games/animation style of learning and it is controlled by him. I think it is something he might get into. I like it cause it doesn't assume what level he is based on his age. So i can put grade one for math and grade two for language arts even though he is technically in grade 3. I put it so low based on his recent cognitive-developmental assessment. Although he is at a grade 6 reading level his ability to then comprehend what he is reading, ie: answer questions, notice sentence structure and grammar is lacking. Plus i want him to feel confident as he starts so i'm low-balling it. In math apparently the psychologist says he has a learning disability. As she says: he's smart but he has trouble in math so it's a "disability". Sigh! I personally think part of the difficulty he is having is based on how the testing was presented. It was presented, like school, with lists of equations to be answered without any visual context and well boring. I don't deny that he has difficulty with math. I have realized in the 4 months we've been homeschooling that he has great difficulty in transferring over information learned to different contexts. Which can be quite frustrating for his 'teacher'. I can be all excited yeah he has learned X or Z then we'll do another example with different variables (but the same concept or skill) and he has to relearn it all over again. big sigh!! But facts on the other hand stays with him! That is his strength! Love him for that (well and everything else even when it is frustrating)! He can understand and retell with obvious understanding what he learned when at a lab a couple months ago. A field trip with the homelearners group to a semi-local microbiology museum where he got to be as he says: "in a real lab". They used real materials and got to wear a lab coat. The experiment was to extract DNA from a banana.
I will, when he has used it some more, post a detailed review of the site. I'll also post a second part explaining more the developmental part of the assessment.