My son's school are fabulous with him, he has ASD, ADHD, Dyspraxia and mild learning difficulties. Academically he is about 3 years behind his peers and about the same emotionally and developmentally.
I am having a big issue with homework at the moment. DS is in Y5 and in preparation for senior school the homework is being enforced . To be faor it isnt that much....Maths, Literacy and another subject once a week.....can all be done inside 1.5 hours.
However because DS compartmentalises things it is hard to get across that homework needs doing. I sit with him......as he simply cannot cope if I am not there and he will generally do SOME homework every week. However getting it all done is a nightmare and he is very hard to work with once he has had enough. Secondly, if he finds sone things hard he blows up and will hit himself or bang his head on the wall. Quite honestly its all a battle I could do without.
In the lasy few weeks tge school have started threatening detention if homework is noy complete.....if anything this is making DS more anxious but he is still finding it hatd yo knuckle down.
He currently has medication for his ADHD and this has worked wonders....within three months of starting it he could finally read. However, by the time he gets home it has worn off and tbh I really do not want to give him yet more of the drug when he gets home....it makes him calm but dopey and its bad enough that I have to give him a drug in the first place.
Last week we got about half the homework done and it has come back tobight with the new homework plus an instruction to finish off last weeks. I mean there is just no way he will manage both. I am already freaking out about senior school and potentially having homework every day.