I'm worried that ds has far greater learning difficulties that I anticipated. He has HFA, but it's only since he's been at his new school(MS - statemented) that it's really apparent that the difference between himself and peers with regards to schoolwork is really escalating. He can only participate with very few lessons, he's just not on the same wavelength, in fact, his teachers allow him to draw pictures a good deal of the time. The homework that he's given is way beyond him, I can't even get him to understand the concept of most of the work. His LSA is wonderful and spends a lot of time with him, but I doubt he's actually learning much at all. They don't force him to do any work because he's a highly anxious and angry child and will scream and shout if made to do anything he doesn't want to do. In his last school(he's now in yr3) he did actually produce so much more work, but he was forced and he became very stressed with very low self esteem. I'm relieved that his teacher understands his emotional difficulties but I'm also concerned that they are not pushing him at all, because they fear a meltdown. He has big behavioural problems too,(they've spoken to me many times about him hitting other children) and it looks like they are just trying to keep him calm without any outbursts, the schoolwork seems to be taking second place IYKWIM. He's a real enigma, he's so behind with regards to schoolwork and yet if he's watching me play a computer game, he comes out with some really great ideas. Oh I don't quite know what I'm asking really, just wondering if this sounds familiar to anyone else?
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Think ds has greater problems that I envisaged.
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macwoozy · 14/11/2007 11:25
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