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It’s hard to believe that although our frum schools are the only places we want to send our kids, the school is not necessarily equipped to educate all of our children. That’s been my experience. I am specifically talking about kids with diagnosed learning dissabilities – average to above average intelligence with a deficit in one or more specific areas. My experience has been that the schools – Bais Yaakov type schools – want to help – they really do – but some of the teachers or even the principals are not up to date on LD’s and how to accomodate these students. It can get really frustrating for both the kids and the parents.
Anyone have any experience or ideas that worked to help improve the infrastructure of the school to accomodate these kids – before they give up?!
It’s very expensive and requires funding that simply doesn’t exist. I’m not sure of a good answer.
send a letter to the board of ed of ur child school district explaining the problem they will evalute ur child and he/she will prob get p3 which is tuitoring from the govt in the school average a child gets is 1 hr a day 5x a wk (or more) and many schools have sb on board who can do it and gets pd by govt if not u can look for sb many frum pp have licence to do this
I would like to add to golden mom’s advice and I hope the community at large will follow up on my advice. In addition to P3 services from the DOE these children can also benefit greatly from OT. Many of you have a very narrow view of OT and believe, falsely, that it is for younger children will cutting, coloring, and fine motor problems. OT is a very broad field, addressing just about any skill that is needed to succeed in the classroom. The p3 will be very helpful to help with the concrete learning for the classroom but the OT might help you address the underlying problem that is causing the difficulties in the classroom. Is it a focusing issue? visual perceptual issue? memory issue? I believe that any child that is eligible for P3 will probably get approved for OT too. So have this evaluation done at the same time. Also bring in documentation from the school, ie, tests, report cards, written work, to back of your claim of difficulties in the classroom. too many children that are only getting their P3 services should and could be getting OT too. The OT will address the issues from the bottom up, addressing foundational skills. One last word of advice. When looking for the OT , be selective, just like you would be when looking for a DR. You want the time spent with the OT to be the most beneficial and productive as possible. Good Luck!!!
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