Re: Re: OCD and reading in school

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Hi,

Both of my kids that have OCD ,have reading problems. My son (8) is a year

behind in reading now, and is getting behind in writing as well. This is with

all the accomodations that mentioned ,in place.

Usually your child can succeed with a 504 or an IEP in place as long as it is an

appropriate plan. My daughter has a 504 and has a load of accomodations and is

succeeding now in reading(yay!! finally. She is in 8th grade)

However my son is not, so unfortuantely, I'm looking to get him placed into a

theraputic school.

I wish you luck!!

Hugs

Judy

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Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:39:48 PM

Subject: Re: OCD and reading in school

 

Hi, welcome! And, wow, we had practically the same situation. My son (now 20)

had OCD begin in 6th grade. And, like your's, affected his reading and his

writing. He also was way above grade level reading and then couldn't get much

more read than a couple pages at school or with homework. I recall part of it

with him is repeating some words in his head until they sounded " right. " Anyway,

he quit reading for pleasure too, afraid he would get " stuck. "

With writing - well that varied lots. At one time it was a lot of erasing; he

began drawing lines on the page after letters that didn't " look right " ; he'd

sort of " freeze " or get " stuck " and couldn't start writing...oh, lots of stuff.

We had to get accommodations at school for him too. We set up a 504 Plan for him

at school with accommodations and modifications in it.

Now - in our case what we did was that *I* read to him at home and *I* did his

writing for him; he dictated. We had this in the 504 Plan. Whew, it was not easy

for me some nights either (single mom, 3 sons). So I would read his

chapters/work to him; he would answer any questions or worksheets and I'd write.

Luckily he was okay with dictating to me, wasn't getting stuck by OCD that way.

So in his Plan we also had that he could bring all unfinished schoolwork home to

complete. That he could turn in work " late " with no grade penalty. What we did

was try to get *this week's " work turned in the following Monday (which could

mean homework for us on weekends). But that was a goal, sometimes a few things

might be later but we usually managed Mondays. We tried to do the more daily

type work each night, like if we knew they checked math in class each day, we

did math each night; if it was something like chapter questions that they just

handed in, we saved that to do later if we needed to.

At school he had extra time on all tests, that included any state tests. By

" extra time " , that was unlimited, until he finished.

We also had that he could write " short answers " for work versus having to write

complete sentences. And they modified some things, like less chapter questions

or less math questions.

Over time we let take back a bit of the work. Like he began to do the

worksheets that were " fill in the blank " or shorter answers. I wrote the longer

homework. Or he might start the writing and then I would take over when he

couldn't do any more.

With reading, we began taking turns. I'd read a paragraph or two, then he would

read one, then I'd read. It was easier for him, I think, to read aloud to me,

not get so " stuck " as when reading to himself. But it did take TIME for him to

pick back up to reading as much (or fast) as he used to.

Well, quick thoughts and typing. But you are definitely not alone with school

issues and OCD and the reading/writing issues!

-- In @ yahoogroups. com, " tp23192 " <tp23192@... > wrote:

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> I'm new here. My ten year old son has recently been diagnosed with OCD

> that involves doubting. The scariest manifestation of the OCD is that

> his brain tells him that he hasn't really comprehended what he reads.

> So, he reads the same page over and over. Prior to OCD (brought on by