My son was in a self contained class last year for Kindergarden. The last 3 months of school he was taken into the “regular” class. It was reported that he did well and he would be placed in regular class the next year. I was so happy. :D
This year he is in a “regular” class room repeating Kindergarden. With the same teacher he visited with last year. He has a speech/language delay. He would be pulled out for Speech, OT, and PT about 2 times a week.
Since the beginning of the school year it as been horriable!! His new teacher calls me at work and asks me how I can get my son to pay attention and follow directions. Each week sends home a note that he needs to follow directions. I had advised her to talk to his Special Ed Teacher from last year to see what works. Also from the reports I got last year for his OT and PT it states that he needs to be reminded to stay on task. He does fine at home, but that just the three of us compared to 20.
I have set up a conference to discuss a behavior plan for him. Am I pushing it a little?? or what kind of advice can I give to his teacher?? This is the teacher’s second year to teach Kindergarden and first year for special needs children included in her class.
I want what is best for my son and don’t want him to be a “trouble” kid in class.
Lily :?
Re: Trouble Following Directions??
[size=14]Has your child recently had a hearing test? Does he have normal hearing in both ears? Sometimes a child will develop hearing problems due to undetected ear infections.
My personal opinion is that homeschooling or smaller classes works better for some children. Would you consider that?
I homeschooled my child otherwise the school officials wanted him on Ritalin when he was not hyperactive at all. Even the doctor was horrified at the thought of forced Ritalin as she saw no hyperactivity in my child …. just allergies to perfume and scented deodorants which many teachers and girls wore to school.
At home without the distractions of the other students continually rustling their papers and those odors he excelled. Then when he went to the university, he made the Dean’s list. We had a homeschooling group which he attended once per week to get some “socialization”. He also belonged to his church youth group and was an altar boy. (We are Orthodox Christians).[/size]
I would get the speech pathologist involved also. They should be able to give this teacher pointers. You might also want to sit in and see what is going on in the classroom. Maybe the teacher needs an aide because she is overwhelmed. Try to get the teacher, speech pathologist and psychologist together to come up with suggestions. If you have trouble getting them to do this, go to the principal to see if he/she can get everyone together to solve it. I would use E-mail to contact everyone and keep their responses, so you have a trail to prove what you have done,so if nothing gets accomplished, you can E-mail the higher ups. Also-usually you can just give a one-step command instead of a multistep command if child is having trouble following directions. They may hear “get out your pencil” but not hear the “and open your book” because they were figuring out where there pencil was, and totally didn’t hear the last part. And if the teacher did not get his attention in the first place he might of missed “get out your pencil” and only heard “open your book” when he noticed others were getting there books out. Good Luck-