Guest guest Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 No new surprises from the triennial testing - there's a 34 point spread between his verbal and non-verbal skills on the WISC-IV, but he averages out right in the " average " category. We spent almost 2 hours in the meeting, and I think we only spent 15 of that making plans for next year - the rest of it was going through all of the tests he took! Sheesh! It turns out that the hearing itinerant did actually come and observe him in the classroom for 90 minutes, and she did bring some decent input to the table. He doesn't have any formal learning disabilities, but he's continuing to really struggle with anything requiring him to complete writing assignments or tell a complex story. He spoke in " word mazes " about 15% of the time when his SLP was testing him on his more complicated speech tests - if he can't find the perfect word for what he wants to say, he just keeps restarting and restarting until he finally either *gets* it, or gets so frustrated that he just stops. His perfectionist, detail-oriented personality is just working against him when it comes to expressive language. Ugh. So. we agreed to continue his speech therapy, but we're adding in a general resource teacher to come into the room to work with him 2 to 3 hours a week next year. She already comes in to work with several other kids in the room, so it won't be a big deal to him to have her there as well (he's incredibly self-concious about getting pull-out services for anything but speech). We're hoping that she'll be able to help him with breaking down the big picture into smaller pieces that he can manage, and she's planning on really working with him on taking that approach with his writing as well. Everyone there agreed that the fact that we didn't know that he had a hearing problem when he was in his critical stage of language acquisition didn't do him any favors - so now we have to try to get him caught up as much as possible. The good thing is that 's really doing pretty darned well according to our " standard " 2nd grade requirements if you take writing out of the equation (and exceeding a bunch of them!). So. I'll take what I can get. :-) Thanks for all of your support and kind words when I was so worried about how all of this was going to shake out. When you've got several teachers strongly hinting that your child has several undiagnosed learning disabilities, it tends to inspire a bit of nervousness. It was rather gratifying to hear the hearing itinerant say: " No, he's not exhibiting signs of ADD - he's acting like a kid with hearing issues! " Hugs to all, Kris Mom to (7 y.o., Profound/Complete SNL, Left Ear) and Ethan (6 y.o., hearing) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 In a message dated 5/15/2006 8:56:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, eskilvr@... writes: It was rather gratifying to hear the hearing itinerant say: " No, he's not exhibiting signs of ADD - he's acting like a kid with hearing issues! " When we at this stage, those words were heaven sent, music to my ears ... I'm so glad you had them said for you and that things went so well. -- Jill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 Kris, I'm glad to hear that it went well. We have our's next week so we'll see. sounds a lot like . She does pretty well on most topics...just not anything in regards to writing and don't you know that our school focuses fairly heavy on writing and language. It will be interesting to see what the testing results are for my daughter. << When you've got several teachers strongly hinting that your child has several undiagnosed learning disabilities, it tends to inspire a bit of nervousness. It was rather gratifying to hear the hearing itinerant say: " No, he's not exhibiting signs of ADD - he's acting like a kid with hearing issues! " >>> Ahhhhh, how I'd love to hear those words!!!! But I know they won't come from 's HI....maybe from the psychologist that we have to evaluate her. Debbie mom to , 6, moderate SNHL and , 3, hearing Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. G.B Shaw --------------------------------- Sneak preview the all-new Yahoo.com. It's not radically different. Just radically better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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