As I mentioned in my other thread, DS has now been formally diagnosed with aspergers. Things at school have gone from bad to worse over the past month. As the dev ped put it - We are at rock bottom now and need to act fast. She is very optimistic that we can teach DS various tools and techniques to eventually go to university, have a career, develop relationships, etc... But, it will be a super slow process and we don't have the luxury of time right now. He comes home miserable from school. Thinks the teachers hate him, are mean, etc... I really think they just don't know what to do with him.
He has basically checked-out of learning at school, unless it is something that interests him like math or science. He will hide under his desk, roam around the classroom, read a book, etc... Teachers knew we were doing testing and have just been letting him be rather than force the rules on him which tends to make him explode. Despite all that he is listening and retaining information as he was able to give us some pretty detailed information on Hanukkah that I know he didn't learn last year.
I spoke with the school and we are hoping to get him a shadow to help with the bigger issues in school. Plus we need some additional recommendations from the psychologist who did the psycho-ed eval as he likely also has some learning disabilities. I don't know how quickly these things can be put into place but my experience has been that things just move slowly. There are just under 2 weeks to go until winter break.
This week is Hanukkah and things are much lighter in school. Yesterday they watched a play done by another class, tomorrow they have some other special event, etc... Plus no homework this week because of Hanukkah. He came out of school happy yesterday.
I am wondering if it is worth sending him to school next week. It is the last week before the break so might be a lighter workload and could work out fine. Or, teachers might try to have a regular type week and he can be miserable. I am very tempted to just keep him home and give him some projects to work on during school hours. Then, hopefully we can get everything set for when he goes back to school after the break.
WWYD - Keep him home or send him and hope for the best?