I work in a primary school.
My dd has just changed to this school. I suspect she has ADHD and /or other issues making it difficult for her to keep up. She is bright but SSSLLOOOOWWWWW. She gets good marks in tests (eg 20/20 in spelling tests, when she's never been taught in English before, 95% in maths tests etc, so IQ not an issue, but she is amazingly slow)
Several other kids in the class are slow and have difficulty keeping up.
There's a lot of copying from the board which she finds challenging and often doesn't complete. She can't articulate why - fine motor probklems - can't write so much/so quickly, eye contact with board/book?
Anyway, she isn't the only one. 22 kids in class, I guess 5 have similar problems. I have tried to speak to the teacher, about the kids in general who have problems, but teacher just kept replying with 'she' despite me repeating several times that I'm talking about all the kids, not just my dd. (I work in the school and do support work with some of the kids in dd's class, and other classes, I do not work directly with my dd)
The T seems totally opposed to any suggestions that I've made in the past and is imo quite negative, and just shakes her head and says she/they just have to do it etc when I've tried suggestion alternatives, eg printing off material for a boy with dyslexia for him to just glue it in. Got a big head shake and no for that,.
Anyway, in a couple of days I have a P/T meeting with her and a couple of other T. They are all understandably concerned that she is so slow, in addition she fiddles a lot, is easily distracted, disorganised, loses her stuff, and yes, is a slow worker.
Does anyone have any suggestion for how they can help her/ how we can get her to speed up/cope with the work?
How I can deal with T negativity or unwillingness to adopt strategies?
DD is undergoing testing for ADHD.
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Please help me prepare for tricky P/T convo - (addressing learning difficulties)
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ErnesttheBavarian · 25/10/2016 10:53
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