4th grade writing

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Tue, 03-18-2008 - 9:51pm

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Tue, 03-18-2008 - 10:58pm

As Liam is in sc and second grade (technically...a long other winded story) I'm afraid I have to shall defer to those with older kids in reg settings. I just wanted to let you know I think your Mommy gut it right. I think I would take them to task on what they said they would do, what actually happened and the end result....ie: 3 sentences. Would adaptive technology help here (laptop/alphasmart?)

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Tue, 03-18-2008 - 11:44pm

I'm thinking along the same line as Dee.

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Wed, 03-19-2008 - 5:50am
My son is in 4th grade too. Although it wasn't in his IEP we suggested to his teacher that his production would be much better if he were given a computer for writing. We wanted his writing to be the product of his intellect and not how much his hand hurt that day. It has worked out great. His production, and the quality of his work has increased considerably. He also rarely has meltdowns, which had been frequent when they tried to force him to hand write his work. That's not to say he doesn't still struggle with some conceptual things due to AS, but things have improved. I would insist that he be evaluated for assisted technology to help him.
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Wed, 03-19-2008 - 6:54am

Ditto to what the other ladies said.

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Wed, 03-19-2008 - 6:57am

Victor is in 6th grade and totally mainstreamed. He can't stand to be pulled out, however this year he's learned to deal with it and thinks of it as part of his schedule. (Helps to be military and move to a new school, kid thinks it's part of this school's way of doing things.) Victor has been blessed this year with an AWESOME resource teacher so I'm a little biased here. If it were me, I'd be for calling an IEP to make certain that 225 of collaborative instruction time was clarified. Let the team know that you're concerned from what appears to be haphazardness on their part about improving his writing skills and that maybe other alternatives need to be looked into for next year.


When Victor was in 4th grade, his state writing test was a joke. The school said that any kid that didn't pass the writing test wouldn't pass 4th grade and I went nutz. I informed them at the start of the year he needed modified assignments and they expected him to write 2 pages? and there were going to fail him because of it? Needless to say they decided to make an exception to the rules for him. It was the next year that we got a diagnosis of Asperger's not ADHD. I was SO angry that the school slapped one label on him and didn't think to look for anything else. It was you ladies that helped me get to the right place.


Now that Victor's got the diagnosis, he's asked to write as much as he can, but if it feels like too much, he's got access to an Alpha Smart ( this sort of word proccessor) that he can type out his answer then go to a printer before end of class and print it all out. He's also got a scribe for standardized tests. The resource teacher doesn't even let him write on them. They just make use of the scribe and I'm telling you, standardized tests this year were SOOO stress free I didn't realize they were doing them until the week was over. He scored 90th percentile across the board on them as well. Victor has also been given a modification that says if he does less than 70% on any given test that has writing on it, he's allowed to redo it in the resource room on the computer. When he's made use of this mod ( few and far between mind you) he's taken a grade of 50 or less and changed them to 100... all because we take writing out of the equation.


This is just Victor's case but maybe you could get a few ideas out of it.


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Wed, 03-19-2008 - 9:29am

Trust me, you're not alone on this one!

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Wed, 03-19-2008 - 9:58am

I just wanted to add that you can also opt OUT of standardized testing.

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Wed, 03-19-2008 - 9:35pm
Thanks guys!
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Wed, 03-19-2008 - 9:59pm

I have had so many run ins with the teachers at my son's school.

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Thu, 03-20-2008 - 12:32am
I am in a similar situation.


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