Guest guest Posted December 9, 2010 Report Share Posted December 9, 2010 Hi .. 14!!! I remember when he was a baby and we were teaching him to sign! That couldn't have been 14 yrs ago,, but then, Mav was 6 and he just turned 20 so.. I guess... ugh! OK.. sounds like Mav in the academics are not his priorities, and, without knowing what level he is working at.. we can't get any specific goals but.. what about resource math and reading? How are his phonetic skills? Money skills, telling time, calculator skills. There is a website.. GCFlearnfree.org. It teaches these math skills.. it even has a money machine and you pretend to use a debit card.. you can adjust it to all levels. Before we moved back to town, the HS we were at was refusing to teach Mav reading.. said he had hit his limit. When we moved to town.. same school district, total different philosophy as a teacher. Mav is in band, Sp. O p.e., dance, resource math, resource reading and another class called II which all the kids in HS have one afternoon/week to help them make a life plan and focus. Now, bear in mind that Maverick has finished all his " modified " science, math, history classes so what he is doing now is just extra but he is STILL LEARNING! My gosh.. he is learning to balance a check book.. but he can't add! Tonight he got out his math homework.. " I gotta finish a little bit of work.. can I use the calculator? " I was way impressed. Maverick enjoys his times that he interacts with the life skills class, but it's mainly for sp O pe. He does go there once in a while for a party or something.. but he is not learning life skills or cleaning bathrooms. (One year he did clean the lunch room because he got a free lunch.. but it was just him and a couple of the football players, NOT a sped thing.) This school has most of their students out in the gen population if it works for them. So, I guess I would say that if Mav is still struggling but LEARNING at 20.. don't take away academics from yet. Just look at what he is interested in and make it work for him. I got a Football Math book that teaches all math according to sports.. I'm thinking I'll use it more with Logan cause he's young enough but ... I know he's VERY interested in sports so it might work. Right now he is into dragons also so we do lots of counting dragons. LOL. Hope this helps. I know it's too long .. but.. email me privately if you want more ideas and can tell me where he is at specifically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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