Morning - I have a meeting with ds's year 4 teacher this afternoon to discuss his "behaviour and attitude in class".
Ds was diagnosed with epilepsy as a baby but thankfully appears to have grown out of it ( off mess for 2 years now - yay!) he was non verbal until be was 5 and showed autistic tendencies which I put down to the mess he was on - he was assessed at 5 and presented with an atypical spiky pattern but wasn't diagnoses as such.
He has always been a child who is easily distracted and can be difficult to keep on track if it's something he's not really interested in - his avoidance tactics include day dreaming, messing about, acting the clown and simply disappearing somewhere else if he can get away eg will ask to go to the toilet in school and doesn't come back until someone goes to get him. This has led to soiling as the way his teacher dealt with it last year was to give him 5 minutes timed toilet break and he was too scared to do a poo cos he didn't have enough time - another story but that's resolved.
To my mind he is a couple of years behind socially and emotionally and acts more like my 6 years old instead of nearly 9. Gets very upset if he thinks he's in trouble and hates upsetting people but this is always after the effect - doesn't appear to realise that his actions could cause trouble.
He had TA support up until last year which the school withdrew as they had assessed he no longer needed it - no IEP this year either.
His class teacher taught him in year 2 and I know she is able I handle him and usually keep him on track so the fact she has called me in is concerning me a lot
Any ideas of how I should handle this meeting or things I can suggest to help resolve the situation? I asked ds why he was messing about and his words were "my brain just makes me and it's too noisy so I can't concentrate"
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whojamaflip · 21/01/2016 10:40
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