Thursday, September 16, 2010

School Troubles

I finally was able to reach Anthony's teacher this morning. The school phones have been out. He got two yellow marks this week so I wanted to check his progress.
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Well, he is slowly starting to have behavior problems. All along she has been having problems with him whenever he decides to be in a bad mood, then he is angry the entire day. He has started being disruptive in class. She asks him to be quiet and he starts to make strange noises. She says that he used to stop for her and now he doesn't.
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I asked her about how he is doing socially. She says that frequently he plays by himself. She has seen kids offer to play with him and he won't. He has problems with peers. He doesn't read them right. He thinks they are being mean if they accidentally bump into him but then when he is being bullied he doesn't recognize it. I know that he has been diagnosed bipolar but in so many ways I see high functioning aspergers.
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He has so many problems socially and his pragmatic speech scored at a 2 out of a possible 100 in his last speech evaluation. I am looking for another specialist to see him. It is hard to find good ones for 7 year olds. It is especially hard because when he is good he is really good, but when he is having an off day he is really off. I don't know when he will have a good day or have an off day.
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Well, just got a call from his teacher. He is not having a good day. Disruptive in testing and art.
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Wish me luck in finding someone who can help, I need it!

2 comments:

  1. Sounds so much like Kaleb. Today he hit the teacher, bit, scratched, spit on a child.... Other days he's a total sweetheart.

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  2. It gets frustrating, especially after dealing with it for years. Things have improved, there are more good days then bad.

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