did anyone have your child repeat kindergarten?Help please.

May 13, 2009

We are going through the dreaded end of year iep and placement for school. All

along we thought we'd may consider having our daughter repeat kindergarten if

necessary.She is in a regular ED classes with a 1:2 aide and goes out for basic

skills reading(and all the therapies) She has moderate to severe global apraxia

and attention defecit problems impacting her learning. She is socially

immature.Her teachers understand her about 90% of the time, children about 70%.

She is reading very simple books, knows sight words , but struggles with all

math work(extending patterns, simple addition)What is weird is she may be " on "

one day for learning like having 1:1 correspodence in counting objects past 20

on one day , then the next she is so diorganized and things seem like she forgot

everything or struggles. Is that common with global dyspraxia?

She either has or is well on her way to reaching all the academic goals they

have for our kindergarten , however her performance is inconsistant , she has

much trouble paying attention/focusing, and she is immature. Our worry is that

if we retain her now, she she will be held back on the academics, there will be

some very immature children just entering kindrergarten not being as

advantageous as having more mature first grade children for role models,also, We

worry that she may ALWAYS be struggling, being a little immature than peers, and

needing extra academic support, so are we going to keep holding her back until

she can speak, write ,calculate and act like the average " 1st " , grader ,or " 6th "

grader etc.--?

Or are we burying our heads inthe sand waiting for an epiphany that she may

pull it together in first grade and be able to handle things and mature. I want

to be realistic, retain her if needed at the right level. Her teacher now is

great. She said she feels too close to her and for that reason wants to protect

her and give her a chance to mature,and grow socially and hope that that would

give her a personal and academic advantage(actually she didn't say it that way

but but that's the point).She did say as do all of her therapists that if she

can't focus better she is going to struggle terribly. OUR point is, keeping her

in kindergarten isn't going to change that.--and as I posted in another question

we really don't want start experimenting with ritalin and such and all the

possuble side effects known and unknown. Anyone who went through this or has any

feed back would be so great . thanks ---Cheryl

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