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Accommodations for bipolar symptons?
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 113031" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Thanks, jal! It sounds like you've gotten quite a bit accomplished! My difficult child scores high on aptitude tests and can get good grades, most of the time. Sounds great, I know, but the downfall is that he intermittently has periods where he's too active or really low functioning and neuropsychologist testing results showed a clear problem in some areas, but teachers won't acknowledge it. Actually, even I thought the test results were a fluke at first until I realized that sometimes, he has these problems that if they were there all the time, he'd be classified with a different sort of learning disability. But, since it's intermittent, and other times he shows very high proficiency, the teachers say he just doesn't study or try- it's behavior oriented. I'm just now starting to get the IEP team to acknowledge anything else is going on (been on medications 2 years, been in psychiatric hospital, neuropsychologist testing done almost 2 years ago)- so I'm left with, ok, what accommodations would help that won't "stifle" him when he's not in this cycle. I can't imagine them EVER giving him his own para-</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 113031, member: 3699"] Thanks, jal! It sounds like you've gotten quite a bit accomplished! My difficult child scores high on aptitude tests and can get good grades, most of the time. Sounds great, I know, but the downfall is that he intermittently has periods where he's too active or really low functioning and neuropsychologist testing results showed a clear problem in some areas, but teachers won't acknowledge it. Actually, even I thought the test results were a fluke at first until I realized that sometimes, he has these problems that if they were there all the time, he'd be classified with a different sort of learning disability. But, since it's intermittent, and other times he shows very high proficiency, the teachers say he just doesn't study or try- it's behavior oriented. I'm just now starting to get the IEP team to acknowledge anything else is going on (been on medications 2 years, been in psychiatric hospital, neuropsychologist testing done almost 2 years ago)- so I'm left with, ok, what accommodations would help that won't "stifle" him when he's not in this cycle. I can't imagine them EVER giving him his own para- [/QUOTE]
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