Hello everyone!!!
It has been years since I posted I have read but have not posted. Quick update my difficult child is 9yrs. old and just started 4th grade, she was constantly getting into trouble in school because of her defiant behaviour and once we pin pointed that this would occur during any class time which required her to write we were able to discover that she was embaressed due to her speech impediments she was not sounding correctly and spelling incorrectly so the teachers made it a friendly environment for her by letting her know that she would only be graded on spelling on spelling tests and that she should just do her work in the other subjects that she would be graded on her answers to the questions given... this worked wonderfully but now that she reached 4th grade I can see it will be a bigger problem she is again showing defiant behaviour when it comes to writing assignments in class she is displaying inability to stay on task and organization skills ( can't remember what H.W. is and forgetting her homework in class).
The teacher called last night and was pretty upset I sensed that she was taking difficult child's behaviour personal and when I suggested calling an IEP meeting she said she had 15 years( a while ago) of working with Special Education students (difficult child is in mainstream classes) and once again repeated that difficult child was extremely defiant and that difficult child had not done her writing assignments in class yesterday and that today difficult child was not going to particpate on an out door assignment related to a written assignment she did not complete in class yesterday which is a step in series of steps for a science project!!! And the dreaded line was used, " I have 32 students and cannot sit and only help difficult child", !!!!
I spoke to difficult child she was sorry for her behaviour but she said ' I don't like writing lots of words I don't know what they mean or how to spell them"!! I explained that she must do what teacher asks her to do in class and that her spelling will only get better as she continues to try...
Have any of you gone through something similar and how did you handle it I mean for the spelling, should her school speech therapist give some help in difficult child's spelling or does the the school provide other assistance I cannot afford a tutor???
i will request IEP meeting but I need to come prepared please any suggestions, ideas, what has worked for you please help!!!!
And thank you in advance
It has been years since I posted I have read but have not posted. Quick update my difficult child is 9yrs. old and just started 4th grade, she was constantly getting into trouble in school because of her defiant behaviour and once we pin pointed that this would occur during any class time which required her to write we were able to discover that she was embaressed due to her speech impediments she was not sounding correctly and spelling incorrectly so the teachers made it a friendly environment for her by letting her know that she would only be graded on spelling on spelling tests and that she should just do her work in the other subjects that she would be graded on her answers to the questions given... this worked wonderfully but now that she reached 4th grade I can see it will be a bigger problem she is again showing defiant behaviour when it comes to writing assignments in class she is displaying inability to stay on task and organization skills ( can't remember what H.W. is and forgetting her homework in class).
The teacher called last night and was pretty upset I sensed that she was taking difficult child's behaviour personal and when I suggested calling an IEP meeting she said she had 15 years( a while ago) of working with Special Education students (difficult child is in mainstream classes) and once again repeated that difficult child was extremely defiant and that difficult child had not done her writing assignments in class yesterday and that today difficult child was not going to particpate on an out door assignment related to a written assignment she did not complete in class yesterday which is a step in series of steps for a science project!!! And the dreaded line was used, " I have 32 students and cannot sit and only help difficult child", !!!!
I spoke to difficult child she was sorry for her behaviour but she said ' I don't like writing lots of words I don't know what they mean or how to spell them"!! I explained that she must do what teacher asks her to do in class and that her spelling will only get better as she continues to try...
Have any of you gone through something similar and how did you handle it I mean for the spelling, should her school speech therapist give some help in difficult child's spelling or does the the school provide other assistance I cannot afford a tutor???
i will request IEP meeting but I need to come prepared please any suggestions, ideas, what has worked for you please help!!!!
And thank you in advance