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<blockquote data-quote="serenityntn" data-source="post: 201303"><p>I'm still waiting on the test results right now but I do feel a little bit more prepared for them now. It's all still incredibly confusing but I expected that. As for some of the questions that were asked about my difficult child, he was language delayed. I'd say by the time he entered Kingergarten he had 15 to 20 word vocabulary and this was after being in pre-K for three years. This was also about the time that he was diagnosis with ADHD. Looking back on the meltdowns he had then, I think alot of them had to do with not being able to communicate with others. He still gets upset when someone doesn't understand him. </p><p> </p><p>He's not able to read very well but he does try. He's always asking me what a word is or how to spell something. He is currently in the 6th grade but they say he's at a 3rd grade level. </p><p> </p><p>Marguerite, when I was reading about your son having the trouble in school with kids hitting him, I recalled how my son went through similar circumstances. He was coming home telling me he got in trouble for something he did or said and when I asked him why he did it, it was because another student was harassing him but the teacher wasn't getting the whole story. She only caught him. Last year I got a phone call one day telling me that he had been suspended and the police were bringing him home. The reason being that they had heard him telling another student that he would kill him. I was shocked and I couldn't imagine him doing that. When he got home and I sat down with him to talk about it, he couldn't understand why he got in so much trouble. I asked him if he had said that and he told me he did but he didn't mean it. He said that him and the other student were playing a game in which they were talking about what kind of funeral and all that they were going to have and my son told the other boy that he would kill him to help him out with his plans. Now I know this was not a good game to be playing but my son didn't realize how it sounded to others. To him, he was just using him imagination. This is when children services were brought in. This and a questionaire they had me and his teacher fill out is what got him the label as emotionally disturbed. He is in counseling and they agree there are some things he needs help with but they don't really see him as being disturbed. </p><p> </p><p>I did get a phone call from his behavior modification teacher yesterday telling me that since he's doing so well right now that they are going to start sending him into the resource class and hopefully later on let him have lunch and p.e. with the mainstream students. I told her it was interesting that she called because I had planned on calling her and asking if they could do that very thing. I had found out a few days ago that he's the only student in the behavior class so of course he's doing well. He has their undivided attention. They are not going to know whether it's working or not until he has the interaction with other kids. </p><p> </p><p>I just hope I get the results of his testing soon so maybe I'll have a better idea of how to proceed. Thanks for the advise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="serenityntn, post: 201303"] I'm still waiting on the test results right now but I do feel a little bit more prepared for them now. It's all still incredibly confusing but I expected that. As for some of the questions that were asked about my difficult child, he was language delayed. I'd say by the time he entered Kingergarten he had 15 to 20 word vocabulary and this was after being in pre-K for three years. This was also about the time that he was diagnosis with ADHD. Looking back on the meltdowns he had then, I think alot of them had to do with not being able to communicate with others. He still gets upset when someone doesn't understand him. He's not able to read very well but he does try. He's always asking me what a word is or how to spell something. He is currently in the 6th grade but they say he's at a 3rd grade level. Marguerite, when I was reading about your son having the trouble in school with kids hitting him, I recalled how my son went through similar circumstances. He was coming home telling me he got in trouble for something he did or said and when I asked him why he did it, it was because another student was harassing him but the teacher wasn't getting the whole story. She only caught him. Last year I got a phone call one day telling me that he had been suspended and the police were bringing him home. The reason being that they had heard him telling another student that he would kill him. I was shocked and I couldn't imagine him doing that. When he got home and I sat down with him to talk about it, he couldn't understand why he got in so much trouble. I asked him if he had said that and he told me he did but he didn't mean it. He said that him and the other student were playing a game in which they were talking about what kind of funeral and all that they were going to have and my son told the other boy that he would kill him to help him out with his plans. Now I know this was not a good game to be playing but my son didn't realize how it sounded to others. To him, he was just using him imagination. This is when children services were brought in. This and a questionaire they had me and his teacher fill out is what got him the label as emotionally disturbed. He is in counseling and they agree there are some things he needs help with but they don't really see him as being disturbed. I did get a phone call from his behavior modification teacher yesterday telling me that since he's doing so well right now that they are going to start sending him into the resource class and hopefully later on let him have lunch and p.e. with the mainstream students. I told her it was interesting that she called because I had planned on calling her and asking if they could do that very thing. I had found out a few days ago that he's the only student in the behavior class so of course he's doing well. He has their undivided attention. They are not going to know whether it's working or not until he has the interaction with other kids. I just hope I get the results of his testing soon so maybe I'll have a better idea of how to proceed. Thanks for the advise. [/QUOTE]
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