One 'Good School Experience' - 01/09/14 04:05 PM
So, I am home with vomiting children today so I guess I'll be chatting a decent amount with y'all between clean-ups. Anyway wanted to share a positive experience. School psych called me today. She really is the only one who remotely gets it - I think I love her right now She is helping with the observations of DS regarding inattention. She thinks dysgraphia is playing a much bigger role in the inattention problems and that it really needs to be addressed. Finally. So, right now, people seem to understand, to some extent, that DS has EDS and therefore has physical pain associated with writing. However they DO NOT seem to understand at all the DS has dysgraphia and what that means. I had given up even educating them on it b/c his teacher seems never to have heard of it and no one seems to understand it and they just completely blow it off and want to talk about "attention." She claims she is going to really work on teasing out the affect dysgraphia is having during her observations, educating the teachers/staff, etc on this, and looking for specific accommodations for that part to help. Oh My God. I had totally given up on the school understanding or accommodating the dysgraphia at all. Now I have hope. I really hope she isn't shut down on this. She says she really thinks this needs to be properly addressed. I am so relieved, I hope it actually happens.