Hiya
Expat in the Netherlands.
Our lovely little 6 3/4 yo boy is struggling with both reading and writing. He's lagging behind in both reading and maths.
He is incredibly restless, just cannot sit still at all. Not for anything, not even his beloved computer games which we limit to 30 mins a day.
he also has the attention span of a drunk butterfly. The swimming teacher calls it 'extreme' (he sees over 400 kids a week!) and the school teachers think that it's something different from usual inattention.
The child-doctor we saw said that we were expecting too much from him and that expecting less might help him pay more attention. Sadly I made the huge mistake of letting him take the tablet during the appointment, which is the only time he will ever concentrate on anything. So she didn't see how incredibly restless he is. If the tablet hadn't been there, he'd have been climbing the walls.
The teachers are arranging a special help-meeting and written plan to observe him and to gain evidence so we can go back to the doctors and ask for a re-assessment. When I think about it actually she mostly just talked to me rather than doing any tasks with him which maybe is a reason why she didn't see his lack of attention.
I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to work with him to help him increase his attention span, to fidgit less (he has to have a special wobble-stool at school!) and to listen better.
He's prone to some pretty spectacular temper tantrums when he doesn't get his own way and sulks, too.
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6 year old poor attention span, teachers think he needs help, doctor disagrees
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Meerka · 08/12/2014 17:27
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