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Would you mention this to EP?

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genieinabottle · 06/11/2010 11:47

I have many things to say but 2 specific things that i'm itching to say Grin to EP when we have our meeting in 2 weeks.

One is what SALT relayed to me during our phone conversation on monday. Have written at lengh about it in a previous post here (it's the 12th post down on the thread where i tal about it)

And the other thing is i sometimes read teacher comments in DS's communication book from school and it says 'DS did this or that...really enjoyed it!'.
But when i go to speak to him about it, he denies it all.

Ex: Thursday he has watched some of the older children dancing, and teacher reported he was very engrossed!
After school I asked DS these questions:
-What did you do at school today?
DS: play outside.
-What else? did you do some writing? some reading?
DS: No play with R.
-Did you watch the children dancing?
DS: No.
-Remember you looked at some children doing a dance at school!
DS: No i haven't.

How can he not remember if he was so engrossed in it!?
This type of thing happens fairly frequently, and not just about school things tbh.

So far DS hasn't been able to communicate to me anything at all relating to learning since he has started in September.
Some of it i think he is picking up on such as phonics, and number recognition, as when he goes on the pc he is able to do correctly many of these activities at an appropriate level for his age.
But his understanding of the world, stories,... stuff which they do and is more asbtract he hasn't given me a single clue that he is learning anything at all.
I 'm thinking that he must go into his bubble when he isn't able to follow an activity or isn't interested and switches off, teacher thinks he is 'engrossed' when in fact he is far away and he isn't able to remember and therefore can't be learning properly imo.

Is it worth mentioning to EP? I'm worried they'll flame me and think i'm crazy Blush

Sorry its' long.

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genieinabottle · 06/11/2010 12:57

bump Grin

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lagaanisace · 06/11/2010 21:32

Well, it's the nature of EPs to flame beleagered parents and think they're crazy, anyway, so I wouldn't have thought you have much to loose Wink. Sorry about my cynicism. However, yes, I do think you should mention it, definitely. It can seem such an uphill battle to get others to see what we know as parents, but I think it's important to flag up as many concerns as possible.

StarkAndWitchesWillFindYou · 06/11/2010 21:52

Memory recall is a problem for lots of children on the spectrum. You can help by getting the school to give you a daily picture of what ds has done. so you can ask. what did you do today? and then show him the picture and help him put together just one sentence. Practice and practice this and then do it with other things, like what did you have for lunch (you can take a photo) at the time, and then just 10 mins later ask him, then when it is consitently correct, wait 20 mins, then an hour etc etc.

genieinabottle · 06/11/2010 22:44

Thanks. Smile

Will mention it and give her a couple of examples. Maybe if i ask her why does she thinks this happens...? turn it into a question for her as opposed to giving my own opinions, maybe then she won't flame me Grin

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