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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 409412" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>It sounds like pragmatic speech therapy might be helpful. he also may have some type of auditory processing problem, etc... Has he ever been fully evaluated by a speech pathologist and audiologist? These need to be done. Why can school not provide this therapy as part of his IEP? He isn't going to have any academic progress with-o it, so it should be in his IEP that they provide it, in my opinion.</p><p> </p><p>If you don't have an advocate, contact the State Board of Ed or Dept of Ed (depends on the state as to what they call it) and they will tell you how to get a free advocate to help you. No way should this be put off except for long enough to fully evaluate him.</p><p> </p><p>This may be the piece of the puzzle needed to really ehlp him. Imagine how upset and frustrated you would be if you couldn 't communicate and the entire world kept demanding that you do so. I only know a small fraction of this. I have a brain glitch that means that I will not be able to learn another language. I can pick up a few words here and there, but efforts to learn sign language and foreign languages are futile. I worked HARD to learn a foreign language in college. Even had a roommate who tested out of a minor in the language and she ONLY spoke to me in that language for weeks at home. I never gained even a small grasp of it - in spite of 10-12 hours in the learning lab each week, doing extra exercises and being at office hours every day. That roomie was an audiology major and commented to her prof about how frustrated we both were with the issue. He begged her to have me in for testing - even gave her credit for an assignment for doing it and observing. They did some testing and discovered the glitch. He was doing research and was having to spend a fortune to find people with the problem. I have NEVER been happier with a grade than I was wtih the D I got in that spanish class - my grades were about 30% but the teacher gave me a D because my effort and the letter from the prof. </p><p> </p><p>So I can imagine how upset and angry and frustrated your difficult child feels ALL THE TIME because he cannot express anything. Have you tried using pictures to help him> Visual schedules and prompts? Combined with a feelings chart (can be in a poster or a book that stands up and gets flipped to show the current feeling) it could really help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 409412, member: 1233"] It sounds like pragmatic speech therapy might be helpful. he also may have some type of auditory processing problem, etc... Has he ever been fully evaluated by a speech pathologist and audiologist? These need to be done. Why can school not provide this therapy as part of his IEP? He isn't going to have any academic progress with-o it, so it should be in his IEP that they provide it, in my opinion. If you don't have an advocate, contact the State Board of Ed or Dept of Ed (depends on the state as to what they call it) and they will tell you how to get a free advocate to help you. No way should this be put off except for long enough to fully evaluate him. This may be the piece of the puzzle needed to really ehlp him. Imagine how upset and frustrated you would be if you couldn 't communicate and the entire world kept demanding that you do so. I only know a small fraction of this. I have a brain glitch that means that I will not be able to learn another language. I can pick up a few words here and there, but efforts to learn sign language and foreign languages are futile. I worked HARD to learn a foreign language in college. Even had a roommate who tested out of a minor in the language and she ONLY spoke to me in that language for weeks at home. I never gained even a small grasp of it - in spite of 10-12 hours in the learning lab each week, doing extra exercises and being at office hours every day. That roomie was an audiology major and commented to her prof about how frustrated we both were with the issue. He begged her to have me in for testing - even gave her credit for an assignment for doing it and observing. They did some testing and discovered the glitch. He was doing research and was having to spend a fortune to find people with the problem. I have NEVER been happier with a grade than I was wtih the D I got in that spanish class - my grades were about 30% but the teacher gave me a D because my effort and the letter from the prof. So I can imagine how upset and angry and frustrated your difficult child feels ALL THE TIME because he cannot express anything. Have you tried using pictures to help him> Visual schedules and prompts? Combined with a feelings chart (can be in a poster or a book that stands up and gets flipped to show the current feeling) it could really help. [/QUOTE]
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