Grinity
Thanks for the link. I'll give your method a try over the next week and let you know how we go. I was worried at first given I think my boy is a visual learner with some aural sensory issues but the single click maybe the sort of sound that will break through. Anything more complex and he'd probably just screen it out.
DeHe
We too have been through the 'you do it better'. I have an amazing picture DS did when he was 15 months which we had framed. We thought wow perhaps a budding artist here. Then a couple of months later DS noticed my DH, who is a talented illustrator, could draw better. DS point blank refused to draw from that point on - 'you do it better'. I'm not sure what's changed but it's only this year he has started to show any enthusiasm for drawing so there is some hope.
Funnily enough the overriding issue with education for me is to see DS in a class of mental age peers who are preferably age peers too (I can but dream). At this point I don't really care about the academics that much - I figure we can extend him at home if necessary. So we're trying to get him into a localish school that have an excellent gifted program but we live just outside their intake area so have to wait to see if there are any vacancies. On the plus side the principal is very keen for him to attend, mainly so he has some peers and isn't isolated.
