Hi I've never been on one of these sights before it seems I sent emails yesterday instead of it coming up on this sight so my apologies for that.
My son is 12yrs old he is in yr 7, 1st year at high school.
I was informed when my child was in year one at primary school that he might be gifted and did I realise how intelligent he was. To be honest I didn't.
In year two I was told by another teacher how she was expecting ''marvellous things'' from my child and how disappointed she was to learn that he had all the information ''in his head'', but he could not write it down on paper, she then apologised to me for the other teacher getting it wrong! From then on my child was labeled with behavioural problems, for not concentrating, shouting out answers and off task. He is also getting into trouble for lack of home work and lack of equipment.
He as been above average in English listening and reading and science. He achieved 5 for english, listening and reading and 4 for writing in English in year 6 sats, 4 for maths and science.
Every year I was told the same by teaches of how my child tells ''fantastic story's'', but can't put it down on paper and if only he could. This changed in year 6 to if only I could read his writing after he had told the class the story that he had written as every one is so engrossed in the story even the teacher, I would also like to add that a new problem had arisen of my child being the '' class clown''.
Now he is in year 7 his grades are all over the place starting with high grades then they go low then high again in subjects like science, geography, maths, German, English, information technology. I'm surprised at him getting 3 a in German as his teacher is always saying he's off task and rude, my child believes his German teacher '' hates him''.
It has become apparent recently that my child thinks in pictures and images and he talks about seeing videos in side his mind of lessons etc, he now thinks that he does not need to revise as he goes back to scenes in his mind to find the answers, he talks about being able to zoom in and out of scenes and pictures in his mind to get detail. He also says that he visualised a whole paragraph on population and he was able to pull the picture back up during a test and write it word for word, he believes by doing this he cheated in his Kat test. He says he can imagine any thing but finds punctuation, spelling and maths harder to visualise than science and geography . He as been up set recently as he did not finish his maths test paper he had 3/4 pages left to finish, he sats he only got a 4a and he needed a 5b which he previously achieved twice since starting secondary school. He also talks about his hand feet becoming tight when writing.
He also says he can imagine any thing he wants to and see's images of 3d maps, shapes and can rotate them and change their colour.
He as also has problems with labels in his clothes since being a toddler, he says it irritates him.
He gets into trouble at school for not concentrating, off task and not working to pupil level. Even though every time there is a test he surprises me. He also seems very emotional lower than his years, he is forever with older kids and his girl friend is 15 years old, I'm really searching for answers.
I guess I'm writing this to see if my child is a gifted visual spatial learner?
I'm losing sleep at night worrying about him. Can anyone give any advice?
