cr12345mr, I think the testing that our psychiatrist did was a neuropsych evaluation, but I don't know all the technical terms used, lol. Anyway, as I said before, my ds's scores were that of a child in his 2nd semester of 1st grade (he is in Kindergarten right now). I don't think he is engaging at school for some reason. All of you are giving me some great answers and it seems to me that he may need more one on one, as you have said.
cr12345mr, what is a LD? Sorry, I don't know much about the short terms for everything yet.
LD=learning disorderWhat kind of behavior plan? (We are new to all of this). I don't know what an IEP is and does my child have to be in special education to have one?? I really feel like you are absolutely right about the one on one. Like your daughter, my son is very smart and if I don't absolutely have to I don't want to put him in special ed. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to say anything bad about special ed and I know it's a good thing and we may eventually need to place him there, but for now I would like to try everything else first.
There may be too many distractions at school or the 1-on-1 at home and the doctor's office is keeping him on task. I had always noticed this about my daughter. Last year she would sit in class and not respond and was failing. With a behavior plan and meds, she is now an active participant in the class and is getting As and Bs. Does your son have an IEP?Hello everyone. Since we started our 5 yr old ds on meds his behavior at school has been great. I hadn't heard anything from his teacher within the past month about his acedemic progress so I went to the school and sat in on his class for about an hour. I witnessed my son behaving very well but he still wasn't focusing in on what the rest of the class was doing (I observed group time). His teacher was calling on several other kids to say the answers to some questions but not my ds. I also noticed that there was a group of boys in the back of the class that was doing their own thing and she wasn't calling on them either (my son was at the front). It doesn't seem to me that she is trying to pull his attention in on what they are doing. It looks like to me that as long as my ds isn't interrupting class then his teacher is A-Ok with him and if he doesn't learn the work then it doesn't matter. I asked his teacher how his actual grades were and she couldn't tell me anything at that time (said she would have to test him). In the meantime I have been taking my son to a therapist who also does adhd testing and learning tests. My ds is in K and his scores were that of a child in the 2nd semester of 1st grade. My ds will do the work at home and at the therapist's office, but not at school. We got progress reports today and his grades have not improved. I don't know what I can do to help him. I don't understand why he doesn't do the work at school but he will at home and at Doc's. I think he is bored with his teacher and I am really fed up. What do I do and has anyone else been through this before?????My daughter has an IEP (individualized education plan) that includes pulling her out for spelling tests (the room is too noisey becuase the kids give each other tests from individual lists). She is pulled out with 4 other kids from both 5th grade classes. The special ed teacher has worked with her to take other tests in the regular classroom (they had to rule out test anxiety and posibly needing extra test time). She is also pulled out for writing because she has dysgraphia. The special ed teacher now has homework club for these kids so she can see where she can help the kids and parents in that area.
The other thing the IEP covers is a behavior plan where the teacher checks the daily homework planner and makes sure everything is in the back pack. We reward her for on task behavoir in homework and she is rewarded for on task behavior in class.
IDEA and section 504 are laws to protect kids with disabilities and ensure them a free appropriate public education. You can request an IEP meeting in writing. IT takes a while to get through the evaluations etc. Check out this site for information on your child's rights:
An iep is special ed. But kids are not put in a special ed room like when I was a kid. It helps your child get help and direction to be able to learn at school. Behavioral plans go with iep if needed. My 7 yr old son is easily distracted and gets upset to the point of way of the board aggression at school. I have him in a behavioral learning class at this time. He is doing better, smaller class size and to me better teachers who are good at dealing with kids like him. Most kids just need some extra help and not what mine needs. It does sound like your child is probably just being distracted by things around him. But from what you said it also sounds like the teacher is just happy to let him be if he isn't disrupting the class. You should request a special ed evaluation in writing take your therapists tests with you to meeting to let them see they are letting him live up to his potential. My oldest son is inattentive adhd and if he didn't have the great teachers he did in grade school (he was very lucky this way) he would have been flunking too. The teacher makes a difference. Aaron'smom39032.4863078704Hi there. I feel your frustration, because my dd does the same thing in 2nd grade. She is on meds, but looks totally disengaged with class. I pop over to her class about once a week and just look in the window to see if she is doing OK. Most of the time she is looking down and picking at her fingernails. I don't know what you do to get them to engage. On the up side, she is getting decent grades. She does have an IEP, though.
One thing that we did was get her a complete assessment by a neuropsychologist. We needed to know what her cognitive abilities were and what would be reasonble expectations of her academically. Maybe you should also have this assessment done. He may be super smart but have a LD in there somewhere also. I think you will be enlightened quite a bit by a neuropsych eval.
I would have a discussion with the teacher and if need be the Principal and continue going up the ladder until you get somewhere. You have rights go ahead and use them we are our childrens advocates.