school is no place for a boy

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with a mixed group, it could indeed be difficult to address all the student's needs.....in a perfect world, the SLP would have kids with similiar strengths and weaknesses within the same class so that their needs could be met adequately ( ie; writing sentences on the board for students who have difficulty with auditory directions.....giving directions auditorily for students who have difficulty with written language).

I am female, and I had a hard time in the public school system. Gender isn't the big problem. Anyone can be misunderstood. I did much better when I went to a private school with higher expectations.

Beautywithin has hit the nail on the head.
Everyone has a different balance between auditory and visual learning.

Make sure the Speech Therapist understands that she was presenting an unbalanced issue.

I highly recommend the following games for Aspys....

Boggle
Big Boggle
Scrabble.

They are a very useful educational device.

You simply add a rule, that anyone can challenge if a word is incorrect, and if it is incorrect
then the challenger gets the points for it, instead of the person who played it.

My Evil boy learns new works this way all of the time... Bruhahahahahah

:)



Also, look around the net for a program named Brain.exe

it presents a series of 20 questions, seemingly odd questions
for which there is no right or wrong answer,
but at the end of it, it will give you are fairly good metric on the degree to which you
learn by hearing, or seeing.

Thanks EvilTeach. Those are good suggestions.

i had an english teacher in high school tell me that people only read because they can't come up with ideas themselves.... in front of the entire class... and i am female.... i hate english

Evidence, eh? Hope that teacher never gets hit by lightning, or else you'll be in court trying to prove that your son is not in fact Zeus.

what a total A-hole of a speech therapist. I would go find a private speech therapist, because it seems obvious that the school's is either an incompetent jerk or a control freak.

IMO the major reason school sucks for kids in general is that most teachers are mediocre glorified nannies because the pay is too low to attract enough people who would make good teachers.

Also, it seems to me that there are a lot more elementary school teachers that are women then there are men; in my rural elementary school there has been only only 4 men working in the school as long as I can remember, the principal, the 6th grade teacher, and the 2 janitors. My, obviously very politically incorrect, opinion is that there needs to be more male elementary teachers, and thus more teachers that remember what it was like to be a boy.

what a total A-hole of a speech therapist. I would go find a private speech therapist, because it seems obvious that the school's is either a jerk or a control freak.

IMO the major reason school sucks for kids in general is that most teachers are mediocre glorified nannies because the pay is too low to attract enough people who would make good teachers.

Also, it seems to me that there are a lot more elementary school teachers that are women then there are men; in my rural elementary school there has been only only 4 men working in the school as long as I can remember, the principal, the 6th grade teacher, and the 2 janitors. My, obviously very politically incorrect, opinion is that there needs to be more male elementary teachers, and thus more teachers that remember what it was like to be a boy.