Thank you all. I just came home totally overwhelmed yesterday. I appreciate all the suggestions. Dh and I need to talk today and I need to talk to the doctor before he leaves the island.
Collins mom- yep that is really what he said. I had not even thought about googling it last night with my brain fried. I was skeptical of that to and wish he had told me a name or more about that. I do believe he has probably seen a lot in his 40 plus years and wonder if he is forgeting the age or using it for dramatic effect. Now I am really confused and unfortunatly as of now we don't have the option of seeing anyone else. He is the psy that our district contracts with and that most bush districts here contract with now. No other psy comes to the island. Sigh. I wonder how I could ask him for more info on that?
As for what others said, I agree.... I can't not answer dd questions and he wouldn't be able to if he lived with her. I thought the same thing about needing to try it NOW verses next year. I need to talk to the superintendent. I have no clue how long that will take. Gaah.
He did suggest the horizontal stuff which we have been doing a bunch of just since she gets obsessed with thongs such as Egypt and mummification and space etc. And I am fine continuing that, and while I don't teach dd just to teach her , if she asks, wants to know, etc, I will show her. I guess he and I will have to "agree to disagree" though... And as I told him. Even when I don't show her she figures out concepts. I never showed her addition and subtraction, but when she was 2 she started doing it, I never showed her fractions or sat down and explained it, yet she uses them, reads them, and applies them during the day in life. I never told her "air is lighter than water", but this summer at the pool she told me this and said "it has to be because my ball is filled with air and it floats" I can't stop her way of thinking.
He did say that several times during testing she used very divergent and out of the box ways of doing things, even in her drawings. And that he had to count several things wrong even though the answer she gave fit.
I could take all the records on what he did to a psy in la when we govthis spring, or abphone consult with someone now that we have testing records. Thoughts on that?
Alright my brain hurts again.... Literally I feel a migrain comming on from all this. I am going to go takey medicine.
Oh and thank you for telling me to not think of the whole where she will be in 10 years. Just take it now.... And find the best fit for now.
Y'all are the best and it helps to have a place to talk and sort this out in my head.
