teacher with a foreign accent?

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teacher with a foreign accent?
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Mon, 09-04-2006 - 11:44pm

Hi Gals,

School has started and the 5th grade teacher has been pretty accomadating. What a relief!

My son had trouble on Friday with the Science teacher who has a strong accent. He seems to have a lot of trouble with staying on task and appropriate in class when he has to work hard to understand the speaker. Does anyone else experience this? Is there anything I can do? Does anything help?

Paula and Joel (10yo Aspergers, highly verbal, high IQ, poor social skills.)

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Tue, 09-05-2006 - 9:47am

wow, that sounds tough. We've never run across that situation. Is that the only science teacher?

Samantha

Samantha
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Tue, 09-05-2006 - 12:06pm

Paula,


To me this sounds like the perfect application for an aide: Translate for him and help him to keep on task.

-Paula

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Tue, 09-05-2006 - 4:33pm

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!

Well - wouldn't an aide be just the loveliest thing!

Still fighting the good fight when it come to the aide. It took the public school 2+ years just to get his IEP to a functional level. No - there's no aide yet - he's in 5th grade (last year at our elementary). I expect everything to fall apart at 6th because that's when they change classes and have 6 different teachers. Anyway, last year's teacher was very accomadating. This year's teacher is great so far! We'll have to see how it goes.

Science is only once a week. I'm hoping he gets used to the accent.

Paula G.

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Tue, 09-05-2006 - 6:00pm

Paula,

5th grade is when Kyle finally got an aide so there is hope.

I hope it gets better in science+++

Samantha

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Tue, 09-05-2006 - 7:46pm


I had a feeling you were going to say that. I'm sorry.


I can't think of any other suggestions excapt perhaps to get coursenotes home and go over the lesson with him again. That's not exactly the best solution, I know.


I do hope he gets used to it.


-Paula

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