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<blockquote data-quote="TeDo" data-source="post: 390902"><p>This is SOOOO like my difficult child only for him it just started this year. In his case, the work this year is so much harder and requires higher thinking skills than last year that his anxiety kicks into high gear whenever anyone gives him any kind of work to do at school. He is also intelligent and is perfectly capable of doing it but he finds is so much harder than all the previous years. He was totally mainstreamed last year with some SpEd support (50 min/wk). We have had to up his time to 35% of the day SpEd and 65% mainstream with some support in the classroom. Does your difficult child take any medications for his anxiety? If he does, does he have a prn? Are his assignments modified in any way? My difficult child only has to do enough of an assignment to show the teacher he understands what has been taught, then he is done for full credit. Sometimes he only has to do 1 or 2 problems/sentences/whatever. That has seemed to help for the most part. He still has issues with the rules stuff though. I am having him evaluated for an Autism Spectrum Disorder among other things. Has your son ever been evaluated by a neuropsychiatrist? If not, that would be my first step. Does he receive any kind of therapy? That is another thing that should be happening to get to the bottom of what is causing the meltdowns. What is the school doing to help? My difficult child has only had 2 suspensions this year because they are sometimes willing to try other things that sometimes help. More information about your son, his medications, his exact behaviors, etc would be very helpful for us to give you better advice. I would highly recommend you read the Ross Greene books The Explosive Child and Lost At School. I have found both to be very helpful at home and am trying to get the school to give it a try also.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeDo, post: 390902"] This is SOOOO like my difficult child only for him it just started this year. In his case, the work this year is so much harder and requires higher thinking skills than last year that his anxiety kicks into high gear whenever anyone gives him any kind of work to do at school. He is also intelligent and is perfectly capable of doing it but he finds is so much harder than all the previous years. He was totally mainstreamed last year with some SpEd support (50 min/wk). We have had to up his time to 35% of the day SpEd and 65% mainstream with some support in the classroom. Does your difficult child take any medications for his anxiety? If he does, does he have a prn? Are his assignments modified in any way? My difficult child only has to do enough of an assignment to show the teacher he understands what has been taught, then he is done for full credit. Sometimes he only has to do 1 or 2 problems/sentences/whatever. That has seemed to help for the most part. He still has issues with the rules stuff though. I am having him evaluated for an Autism Spectrum Disorder among other things. Has your son ever been evaluated by a neuropsychiatrist? If not, that would be my first step. Does he receive any kind of therapy? That is another thing that should be happening to get to the bottom of what is causing the meltdowns. What is the school doing to help? My difficult child has only had 2 suspensions this year because they are sometimes willing to try other things that sometimes help. More information about your son, his medications, his exact behaviors, etc would be very helpful for us to give you better advice. I would highly recommend you read the Ross Greene books The Explosive Child and Lost At School. I have found both to be very helpful at home and am trying to get the school to give it a try also. [/QUOTE]
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