This whole summer has been hard, because of family leave with my daughter.
What I *have* to do, though, is help my son: - sit down with the educational advocate - hire a mediator - get him into a school program that will actually move him forward into success rather than just promote to the next grade
I realized this summer that somehow none of the occupational therapists taught him to tie knots once he had the fine motor control, because they were focused on social skills, and now he's convinced he can't do it at all. He turned twelve this week. He struggled through fifth and sixth grade and now he's being forced to go on to seventh grade.
At least he gets praise for dealing with frustration less violently than his sister...
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dancing_serpent
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Date: 2017-08-16 10:04 am (UTC)What I *have* to do, though, is help my son:
- sit down with the educational advocate
- hire a mediator
- get him into a school program that will actually move him forward into success rather than just promote to the next grade
I realized this summer that somehow none of the occupational therapists taught him to tie knots once he had the fine motor control, because they were focused on social skills, and now he's convinced he can't do it at all. He turned twelve this week. He struggled through fifth and sixth grade and now he's being forced to go on to seventh grade.
At least he gets praise for dealing with frustration less violently than his sister...