I noticed in the Mel Levine thread a discussion about Karen Foli’s book “Like Sound Through Water”, which I think a lot of us have read. The question asked was “Does anyone know how her son is progressing now?”
It was both encouraging and discouraging to read how at grade 3 in the public schools, her son was blossoming and becoming a typical, above average student. Has anyone heard anything about his continued progress?
Re: Question about Karen Foli
> This is just pure speculation, but with a psychiatrist
> husband and an advanced degree herself, I imagine this child
> may have a relatively high IQ which certainly may help with
> compensating even if there are remaining issues.
>
> Janis
We were told exactly that when my son was initially evaluated at the age of 7.
Unfortunately, things did not work that way… Proper educational approaches and remediation are, in my opinion, keys to success (or surviving rather). The potential might help later on, but high IQ is of little help when the child is in elementary school.
On the contrary, I was told by one of the special ed teachers that the fact that my son is bright might be his biggest problem since he appears just an average student in regular classroom and does not really trigger teacher attention as a child that struggles.
Re: Question about Karen Foli
I certainly agree with your point, Ewa. But what usually happens is, while the gifted APD child may be average in academics, the average child works at a below average level or fails. And sadly, few schools have quality remediation even for the kids who are identified. That’s why we still have so many kids still labeled LD in high school…the deficits were never remediated to a degree that they would test out of special ed. But I totally understand the problem of the bright child’s problems being ignored. I have another child who was in that situation actually.
Why won’t you email her and ask? Here is her web-site:
http://www.karenfoli.com/
This is just pure speculation, but with a psychiatrist husband and an advanced degree herself, I imagine this child may have a relatively high IQ which certainly may help with compensating even if there are remaining issues.
Janis