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DS has displayed a 'talent'!!!!

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SleepyJess · 26/09/2005 15:16

DS2 age 5 (and with an undinagnosed type of dystonic CP, poor attention span, learning difficulties.. developmental delay across the b board.. and generally described as 'severely disabled') has just gone into Y1 in his mainstream school and has a new one-to-one. He goes to school on transport and today (after horseriding) was the first time I have met her face to face so I took the opportunity to ask her about something she wrote in his home/school book last week.

She had written that he had been awarded a sticker for excellent work (I have to be told this as no sticker is ever in evidence seeing as he eats them! ). The class has been doing work on 'patterns' and he had understood it better than the rest of the class and been stating aloud when they were getting it wrong!!! Well DH and I were totally because DS's one - huge- strength is his social ability (which is why we chose to put him in mainstream at least for now).. but he has never, to our knowledge, been better than any of his(mainstream) peers at anything! (Expect perhaps making people laugh, smile, feel happy etc!) We just didn't think his understanding/attention span were that good despite the fact that he does join in everything and make obvious progress.

So I queried it today and she said yes he was definitely doing it.. and it wasn't a fluke because they had tried it again the next day! They has been asked to get themselves into boy-girl-boy-girl formation and then 2 boys-2 girls etc and DS has been very vocal and demonstrative at telling them all how they should be postioned!!! And furthermore.. on Fri pm he SANG Jack & Jill to the class alone...!!!! One-to-one had come back from lunch to hear him singing it to another child.. so when the teacher came back she asked Alex if he would like to sing it to the class.. and he said yes.. and DID!!!!

We have never heard Alex sing anything!! He will finish off sentences you start.. I know he knows/remembers songs and rhymes.. but to sing along all the way to 'Jill came tumbling after..'! Well! I thought I knew my son better than anyone.. and I thrilled and so suprised but am wondering what this means!!

One-to-one (who has only just met him - 3 weeks ago - as she was on maternity leave last year so not even in school) said that it is her belief that Alex has got some rather 'normal' intelligence stored away in his head! I always knew he would go from stength to strength but had long ago stopped 'measuring' him by 'normal' standards or hoping for any 'normal' achievments!! (Please excuse the word 'normal' - jsut trying to describe what I mean.. I long ago stopped caring about normality per se!)

What does anyone else think? Has this happened to any of you with you SN little people?

SJ x

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SherlockLGJ · 26/09/2005 15:24

I don't have any SN knowledge just wanted to say