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<blockquote data-quote="TeDo" data-source="post: 569428"><p>When you meet with them, take along 2 copies of a letter written to the director of special education services requesting an evaluation for special education services. Request that they "do thorough academic, emotional, behavioral, speech-language, and occupational therapy evaluations". My guess is he's struggling with some aspect of academics that even he may not realize he has (been there done that) and then is being punished for not being ABLE to do it and not knowing why. At that age, it is VERY easy for adults to see it as opposition, defiance, whatever. Typical teen behavior when it very well may be something else. Even if he's had no issues before, as the work becomes harder and requires higher order thinking and comprehension, lacking skills become apparent. Since the kid doesn't even know he's lacking the skills, being told he's "bad" or "wrong" or "naughty" will only make him think he's stupid which will only make things worse. Anyhow, that's just my humble opinion after going through similar situations and learning the hard way.</p><p></p><p>Please read the book The Explosive Child by Dr. Ross Greene. By using his methods of "inquisition", I learned a LOT about my difficult child 1 which led me to seek thorough outside evaluations only to find that all of us adults were WAY off base.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeDo, post: 569428"] When you meet with them, take along 2 copies of a letter written to the director of special education services requesting an evaluation for special education services. Request that they "do thorough academic, emotional, behavioral, speech-language, and occupational therapy evaluations". My guess is he's struggling with some aspect of academics that even he may not realize he has (been there done that) and then is being punished for not being ABLE to do it and not knowing why. At that age, it is VERY easy for adults to see it as opposition, defiance, whatever. Typical teen behavior when it very well may be something else. Even if he's had no issues before, as the work becomes harder and requires higher order thinking and comprehension, lacking skills become apparent. Since the kid doesn't even know he's lacking the skills, being told he's "bad" or "wrong" or "naughty" will only make him think he's stupid which will only make things worse. Anyhow, that's just my humble opinion after going through similar situations and learning the hard way. Please read the book The Explosive Child by Dr. Ross Greene. By using his methods of "inquisition", I learned a LOT about my difficult child 1 which led me to seek thorough outside evaluations only to find that all of us adults were WAY off base. [/QUOTE]
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