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<blockquote data-quote="1 Day At a Time" data-source="post: 116850" data-attributes="member: 3704"><p>kimno,</p><p></p><p>The reports on your difficult child could be reports on ours - in fact I had to look twice to make sure they weren't. I don't know about your difficult child's specific challenges, but our difficult child has Asperger's syndrome. His neuropsychological evaluation showed an incredible spread in abilities and limitations - so much so that the neuropsychologist did not believe he could get a valid IQ score for him. What we see is a "swiss cheese" picture of abilities. The teachers hear his great vocabulary and his persuasive arguments and the less sophisticated of them start to believe that he is lazy and not putting forth effort - or worse yet, that he is a real smart aleck. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact he has "islands" of ability and big gaping holes where he is very deficient in certain areas - organizational ability being one of them.</p><p></p><p>The SD needs to know this and articulate this information to the teachers - if this is also true of your difficult child. We are on a block type semester system - and every new semester I have to meet with all of the teachers individually to conduct my "inservice" training for them on Asperger's Syndrome. It is incredibly time consuming and frankly, some get it and some don't. I've even thought of offering to do an inservice for the entire faculty at the high school. Statistics show that my difficult child is not the only student like this at their school.</p><p></p><p>I've become a real education revolutionist. It is the school's responsibility to meet the education needs of my difficult child with needed accomodations. This is true of your difficult child as well - as seen by the fact that he has an IEP. I wouldn't feel shy about making sure that the school meets their end of the bargain. This is really more of an administrative - managerial issue than an individual teacher issue. I would continue to let them know exactly what accomodations that you think he needs in the classes where things are not going smoothly. Good luck in your quest!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1 Day At a Time, post: 116850, member: 3704"] kimno, The reports on your difficult child could be reports on ours - in fact I had to look twice to make sure they weren't. I don't know about your difficult child's specific challenges, but our difficult child has Asperger's syndrome. His neuropsychological evaluation showed an incredible spread in abilities and limitations - so much so that the neuropsychologist did not believe he could get a valid IQ score for him. What we see is a "swiss cheese" picture of abilities. The teachers hear his great vocabulary and his persuasive arguments and the less sophisticated of them start to believe that he is lazy and not putting forth effort - or worse yet, that he is a real smart aleck. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact he has "islands" of ability and big gaping holes where he is very deficient in certain areas - organizational ability being one of them. The SD needs to know this and articulate this information to the teachers - if this is also true of your difficult child. We are on a block type semester system - and every new semester I have to meet with all of the teachers individually to conduct my "inservice" training for them on Asperger's Syndrome. It is incredibly time consuming and frankly, some get it and some don't. I've even thought of offering to do an inservice for the entire faculty at the high school. Statistics show that my difficult child is not the only student like this at their school. I've become a real education revolutionist. It is the school's responsibility to meet the education needs of my difficult child with needed accomodations. This is true of your difficult child as well - as seen by the fact that he has an IEP. I wouldn't feel shy about making sure that the school meets their end of the bargain. This is really more of an administrative - managerial issue than an individual teacher issue. I would continue to let them know exactly what accomodations that you think he needs in the classes where things are not going smoothly. Good luck in your quest! [/QUOTE]
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