DS is 6.5. Recently dx with Auditory Processing Disorder but apart from that I doubt if he will ever get a full dx. He has learning delay and is very young for his age. He is struggling at school and we are [still] waiting for statement. When I say struggling, his teacher recently asked me if I had ever 'considered a special school'.
Anyway. Took the plunge last night and went to a local sports club for children with SN. Apart from London Zoo SN day its the first time we have used such a service.
It really suited him. They were patient with him and didnt tell him off for being sulky or wandering off. They kept bringing him back and didnt tell him 'to be a big boy' or ask me to bring him back when he was ready to join in etc.
It felt so much more relaxing than trying to shoe horn him into a MS class.
So why do people insist on telling me I am doing the wrong thing? Like I am trying to make him SN when he is fine really. I know he wouldnt cope with a mainstream football club for e.g. How on earth would he when he can only understand about 30% of what is said to him? I am not giving in! I just want him to be happy. Why do people think we somehow encourage our kids to be different. Do they think I need the excitement of a kid with SN in my life or something?
Of course there were children with more complex needs than DS there. But there were an awful lot who seemed to be more or less on a par with him IYSWIM.
Will he suddenly get 'worse' now he is mixing with SN kids once a week .
That seems to have turned into a minor rant. Sorry.
Has anyone else had this sort of problem i.e. friends and family insisting there is nothing 'wrong' with your child. As if you think there is something 'wrong' with them?