Splorf!!
At least you arrived too early, instead of too late. Good luck on Monday.
Thank you, and I agree! I am never late anywhere but this may have been a little overboard.
Eco, oh, my. Love to you and DS, the tree and the apple that didn't fall too far.
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Yes, there is little possibility of a switched-at-birth scenario...
Yay! More time to digest the report! Fabulous.
Silver linings and all that.
This was my thought process, absolutely. I wasn't ready for the meeting, still a little hijacked by the new dx. Even though I expected it, it's going to take a little time to process. The advocate was having me practice what I'll say and I was doing a lot of stammering--so this extension is a bonus.
OK, since you now have a bit more time with the data and report, contemplate the following exercise.
Write down each difficulty you see your DS having. Try and make it as concise as possible, like "Difficulty interpreting written directions."
Next to it, list all the evidence you have for that difficulty. Start with testing, go to teacher data, direct quotes from the neuropsych report, and finish with anecdotal comments starting with teachers then yours (include dates and direct quotes). Move to the next difficulty, and repeat the process.
I am going to do this, exactly. One thing I'm still mulling over is whether or not I should bring up some things that aren't exactly my son's struggles, but are about perceptions of/reactions to his more off-putting behaviors. Related to his difficulties but not his per se. I think his teachers were professional in their demeanor toward him last year, with one rather notable exception--that was out of control and abusive. I don't think that will ever happen again, but it's well-documented and I think it makes a good case for having a behavior plan in place.
As an aside: DS told me today that he thinks my email to one of his teachers "backfired" because she spent a good deal of time in class "showing him how to put a piece of paper in a folder." LOL! I told him I think that's great--it sounds like she is trying to support him and that he historically has not demonstrated this ability.
He is NOT amused. He told me it was entirely "patronizing." I asked him what he did--he just sat there saying, okay, okay, okay. I asked if he was embarrassed--nope. But he said that even his buddy agreed with him that it was "patronizing."
This is going to be a long road.
I am really trying to see the humor in some of this situation. My sister and I were reading through the NP report today and literally LOL'ing at some of his oddball statements during testing. Or, rather, at what the NP thought were good examples of oddball statements. For us, they all seemed pretty normal, par for the course in our experience (and in our family at-large).
