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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 479486" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Yes. Thanks, IC. I did think of you this afternoon actually, and it went through my mind (one of those wild fantasies one gets) to start talking about Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) and Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) to the teacher - not that I know the French for those - and watching her eyes boggle with incredulity at my absurd imaginings... I am glad that things seem to be going okay for J at school and that he seems to be learning, but she said at one point "he is behind all the other children"... So I said, but surely that means something because his intelligence has been tested and it's normal so why would he be behind? She then talked about his bilingualism but I don't think that can account for these things. There are just odd things going on for him - when you show him a number, for example, and ask him what it is, he has to count on his fingers before he knows. She laughed about it, but I would think it reveals something.</p><p>I'm aware she's doing her best as it is and that schools just aren't set up to have these kinds of competences and that kind of knowledge to see what is really going on. But as I said to the teacher, if there IS a problem, there will come a time when it will be clear and it will be impossible to deny - over the next year or two, I imagine.</p><p>Then, after having been told that my son is virtually "like all the others", just a regular kid, when he came home he was having tantrums every time I refused him something unreasonable he was demanding, shouting and screaming at me, kicking my legs... I am aware that it is because he is just so exhausted, but I think it is safe to say that the regular kids are <strong>not</strong> doing those things when they get home from school.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 479486, member: 11227"] Yes. Thanks, IC. I did think of you this afternoon actually, and it went through my mind (one of those wild fantasies one gets) to start talking about Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) and Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) to the teacher - not that I know the French for those - and watching her eyes boggle with incredulity at my absurd imaginings... I am glad that things seem to be going okay for J at school and that he seems to be learning, but she said at one point "he is behind all the other children"... So I said, but surely that means something because his intelligence has been tested and it's normal so why would he be behind? She then talked about his bilingualism but I don't think that can account for these things. There are just odd things going on for him - when you show him a number, for example, and ask him what it is, he has to count on his fingers before he knows. She laughed about it, but I would think it reveals something. I'm aware she's doing her best as it is and that schools just aren't set up to have these kinds of competences and that kind of knowledge to see what is really going on. But as I said to the teacher, if there IS a problem, there will come a time when it will be clear and it will be impossible to deny - over the next year or two, I imagine. Then, after having been told that my son is virtually "like all the others", just a regular kid, when he came home he was having tantrums every time I refused him something unreasonable he was demanding, shouting and screaming at me, kicking my legs... I am aware that it is because he is just so exhausted, but I think it is safe to say that the regular kids are [B]not[/B] doing those things when they get home from school. [/QUOTE]
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