SmallTownMom
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I have been waiting to get a school based meeting for my difficult child since the beginning of school this year. My difficult child has a great teacher and has been doing great at school, a wonderful change from the past two years. My goal was to get an IEP done this year, we had a meeting at the end of last year (his grade 3 year) with plans of meeting at the beginning of this year to put an IEP into place.... patiently waiting for months ..... finally I call the school and get a call back after a few days... my difficult child dosen't meet the "requirements" to get aid. How frustrating, he has to get worse to get any help. Not fair for him!
We are having a school based meeting with the learning resource teacher, the principal and his teacher in 2 days to figure out what we can do to help him. When I talked to his teacher I expressed my concern with the effect homework has on him. It causes HUGE anxiety meltdowns and rages and times. Her response was "I can't not give him homework! He needs to learn how." ..... how is that helping him???
We had a psychiatrist appmt last week and changed his medications, he is now on a newer drug Vyvance (any feedback?), Clonodine and another for sleep. I mentioned to his doctor about the school and what his teacher said, I loved his answer... I plan on using it at the meeting..he said....
" That is like taking a cane away from a blind man and saying, go - cross the street, how can you ever expect to learn how to cross the street by yourself if you keep using a cane" (I am paraphrasing a bit... it made more sense when he said it)
Telling our difficult child's to stop being a certain way is like telling a blind man to SEE... it is not possible.
:O)
We are having a school based meeting with the learning resource teacher, the principal and his teacher in 2 days to figure out what we can do to help him. When I talked to his teacher I expressed my concern with the effect homework has on him. It causes HUGE anxiety meltdowns and rages and times. Her response was "I can't not give him homework! He needs to learn how." ..... how is that helping him???
We had a psychiatrist appmt last week and changed his medications, he is now on a newer drug Vyvance (any feedback?), Clonodine and another for sleep. I mentioned to his doctor about the school and what his teacher said, I loved his answer... I plan on using it at the meeting..he said....
" That is like taking a cane away from a blind man and saying, go - cross the street, how can you ever expect to learn how to cross the street by yourself if you keep using a cane" (I am paraphrasing a bit... it made more sense when he said it)
Telling our difficult child's to stop being a certain way is like telling a blind man to SEE... it is not possible.
:O)