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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 362967" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Interesting. As I said, all kids are different. I also agree - at the moment, what a kid gets diagnosed with can be very subjective.</p><p></p><p>Here, home-schooling still requires the parent to develop a curriculum, to justify to the Dept of Ed, the level of education the child will be getting. While technically you could simply keep your kids home and not give them anything academic to do, there still needs to be some level of audit, where the parent reports back on the learning outcomes and matches it to the required curriculum for the child if he/she were in mainstream. But there is still flexibility - for example, a child who goes shopping with his mother and who helps follow a shopping list; who helps determine which is the most economic size and brand of tinned spaghetti, can tick the box for a number of learning outcomes, in mathematics, in life skills, in reading, in commerce.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 1 is bright, but has chosen a career path that has him working with his hands - he wants to be a carpenter. Originally he wanted to study science at uni, but has now given that idea up. Although he's smart, he can't multi-task mentally, which meant that writing essays etc was almost impossible for him without a great deal of support. He also would read a text and not be able to pull out the information he needed - he had to assess the stuff he read and decide which bit was of more value, and tis required too many mental steps.</p><p></p><p>There are many different kinds of intelligence. I've tended to always treat children as if they are highly intelligent, it tends to stimulate what intelligence there is and helps them take maximum advantage of it.</p><p></p><p>A friend rang our place on Saturday while I was at the library. She was asking where I was. She mentioned a book to difficult child 3 on Asperger's, difficult child 3 responded with, "I don't have Asperger's, I have autism. Although I'm not really sure on what basis they distinguish between autism and Asperger's in my case."</p><p>I know difficult child 3 is very bright, but there are times increasingly when I really wonder if we are going to be able to get him to graduate from high school.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 362967, member: 1991"] Interesting. As I said, all kids are different. I also agree - at the moment, what a kid gets diagnosed with can be very subjective. Here, home-schooling still requires the parent to develop a curriculum, to justify to the Dept of Ed, the level of education the child will be getting. While technically you could simply keep your kids home and not give them anything academic to do, there still needs to be some level of audit, where the parent reports back on the learning outcomes and matches it to the required curriculum for the child if he/she were in mainstream. But there is still flexibility - for example, a child who goes shopping with his mother and who helps follow a shopping list; who helps determine which is the most economic size and brand of tinned spaghetti, can tick the box for a number of learning outcomes, in mathematics, in life skills, in reading, in commerce. difficult child 1 is bright, but has chosen a career path that has him working with his hands - he wants to be a carpenter. Originally he wanted to study science at uni, but has now given that idea up. Although he's smart, he can't multi-task mentally, which meant that writing essays etc was almost impossible for him without a great deal of support. He also would read a text and not be able to pull out the information he needed - he had to assess the stuff he read and decide which bit was of more value, and tis required too many mental steps. There are many different kinds of intelligence. I've tended to always treat children as if they are highly intelligent, it tends to stimulate what intelligence there is and helps them take maximum advantage of it. A friend rang our place on Saturday while I was at the library. She was asking where I was. She mentioned a book to difficult child 3 on Asperger's, difficult child 3 responded with, "I don't have Asperger's, I have autism. Although I'm not really sure on what basis they distinguish between autism and Asperger's in my case." I know difficult child 3 is very bright, but there are times increasingly when I really wonder if we are going to be able to get him to graduate from high school. Marg Marg [/QUOTE]
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