DS5 has just started K. It's only week 5 of K and I am starting to see a long struggle of trying to get him an appropriate education. He has attention and executive functioning challenges, he has some social issues with problems reading cues and a tendency just to talk about what interests him, and he is very bright.
He had an early intervention program focusing on social skills and emotional regulation as he originally had a diagnosis of PDD NOS. We had a meeting with his therapy program manager, his psychologist, the principal, his teacher, and the school counsellor today. The school thinks he is adjusting fine, that other kids have bigger behavioural problems, and that they have a number of students with similar profiles. The school has not started an accelerated learning plan for him, they said they want to get his basic skills in place first.
I had a look at the math curriculum, and it does appear that he knows how to do everything up to the 2nd grade level, and that is with no formal instruction. I just get an awful feeling he is not going to learn much of anything academic this year.
I hate conflict, and it felt like the school thought I was making a fuss over nothing and that DS is just fine. I don't know much about scores from gifted tests, I don't know if DS would be considered HG or just gifted. I don't know if the school has other students similar to DS in their academic ability, but I worry that they are not going to give him enough challenge and he won't learn study skills, he will be bored, and he will develop behavioural problems. They did mention the possibility of subject acceleration at a later date, but it is not possible now due to social and emotional immaturity. We wanted to have a shadow to support the teacher in the classroom, but the school is hesitant.
I would ask someone to tell me it gets easier, but from what I have read here it doesn't. Thanks for reading.
Last edited by Dubsyd; 04/06/14 05:39 PM.
