Feedback from School

Yesterday I spoke with the new Special Education teacher assigned to Jonathan. The previous one was reassigned to another group. During our conversation, I expressed that I was disappointed in that I had gotten his quarterly IEP report in December with mostly fours "4's" as ratings (out of 5) and yet Jonathan is not in my mind that high. He still has trouble speaking and with social interactions. Among other things. I told her that I wanted to know exactly what the observations were that gave such high points because again I know that he needs more work. And either he is not being challenged or they are not observing enough. Either way, that is not acceptable to me. She is going to get back to me with the previous Special Educator's notes so we can compare and potentially do an amendment to the current IEP.

On a negative note, she did tell me that Jonathan's Kindergarten teacher had told her that Jonathan did not do well in December and the first week in January. Would not do his work, would not pay attention, etc. I am disappointed that I was not notified earlier. We get a daily progress report and it always comes home with a happy face except for the one time that I already documented. So I need to send his teacher an email asking for more specifics.

However, what I decided to do based on that feedback was take away all electronic games from Jonathan from Monday through Friday. I think that he is so obsessed with them, that when he goes to school, all he thinks about is how Crash Bandicoot is going to kill the next monster. I know Jonathan well enough to know that that is what goes on in his head.

So we told him yesterday, and he was very compliant today (except for the Leapster which I did not purposefully remove just yet). He was bored to death since he doesn't play with regular toys. But it prompted him to do other things like call me 3 times to talk, read, etc. We'll see how this goes.

I noticed today when he called me that he has his ideas very clear in his mind, he just cannot express them properly. Verbal apraxia. How frustrating for both him and me.