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Firstly, if he has an IEP you should have a copy, and should have signed off what the school are doing to support him, what you will do, and he should know what he needs to be working on. The IEP should be fairly specific about all of this.Do you know if he is on school action, or school action plus (it should say this on the IEP)? If it is school action plus then there should be extra resources from outside the school focussing on helping him.I would have a look at the IEP and see if you think it is (a) accurate, (b) up to date (c) suitable - ie if they did all of it, it would be enough to help him. Your SW may be able to help you with this. You don't say how long he has been with you, but although he may be behind I would not necessarily be focussing too much on extra work out of school in your position. Our DD is behind and always will be (probably) she had an appalling start, coming to us age 5. I am usually pretty pushy with school to get her the help she needs in school (although we have problems with this at the moment following her transfer to Y7). However, at home, although we do all the homework, we try to concentrate on other activities she is good at, as I feel that spending all day on stuff you are behind on and feel not that confident around, and then coming home and spending more time on it is not ideal. Through this we have discovered her natural talents for music and gymnastics, and the development of these talents have helped her gain respect at school, even though she is generally behind in other areas.Duckling