Some excellent advice - thank you.
We were doing the binder, and it worked well last year. This year he is allowed to bring his old iPad from home and use it for note taking and doing some work. He forgets to email it. Because he has no intrinsic need to please or show someone else his work is finished, doing it is the task he is interested in. He easily forgets to turn it in, because he has no personal value in anyone else seeing it. And so he forgets to email the assignments.
The binder seems to have fallen apart, partly because some teachers decided if he was doing work on the iPad, they would expect him to download the pdf files from the website while others wanted him to keep their special pattern of binder instead of what worked for him. It became convoluted, he got confused, and basically has been resistant since it no longer makes sense in his head.
Being assigned to be a student aide in a special ed classroom will give him class credit for basically doing his work in the class and then having the educational assistant in the classroom walk him through the process of turning every assignment in every day. So, in theory, it should change his grades from F's to A's.
