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Post by shardstar on Mar 27, 2004 16:05:27 GMT -5
Do any of you notice that your child will be struggling in a subject to the point of needing extra help (such as in room support or resource room) and then all of a sudden a light goes on in their head, and they just seem to get it all of a sudden?
My first grader has been having a heck of a hard time with math all year. Her teacher was so concerned, that she reccommended that she have resource room for math in second grade. Then all of a sudden, last week, she seems to not have any problems with math at all. She hasn't needed any help with her math homework once since then, and when we went over some problem spots that she has had sofar, she completely understood them!
I don't know if it's a fluke, or what happened!
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Post by swmom on Mar 28, 2004 19:51:59 GMT -5
I know that happens with children who have slow processing speed, like mine. It takes forever for them to get certain things but once they've figured it out,
no problems anymore.
I also know that before medication, my daughter had a terrible time with math facts, seemed like such a struggle. On Adderall, it was still a struggle. Then, we put her on Strattera. Now, math facts are no longer a problem. Isn't that weird?
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Post by rosyred45 on Mar 28, 2004 20:20:09 GMT -5
Hey stranger..... ;D
I think if she GETS it , it finally clicked and she can get it. But depending one the math program that they are in, depends if they should be in the resource room or not.
Kaiti
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Post by shardstar on Mar 29, 2004 13:07:32 GMT -5
Kaiti, I feel more comfortable with her being in resource room for math next year, just in case, anyway. I would hate to see her struggling and behind the rest of the class.
swmom, that IS weird that Strat would cause your daughter to keep the math fact in her head, but the Adderal wouldn't. I wonder why??? Did she just not do well on Adderal in general?
It seems like all of my daughter's life, she has had problems being behind in one thing or another, and then just like that! -all of a sudden, she gets caught up, and you would never know that she had a problem with it once. It's strange...
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Post by mskris on Mar 30, 2004 15:38:30 GMT -5
Shard:
It might be the teacher that made the difference. I'm assuming the resource room teacher is different from the in-class teacher.
I had the same thing happen to me in hs math. I was totally lost by October in jr. yr. math. I went to a tutor and in one 1-hour session, she made it all clear. Another month later, I was lost again; another trip to the tutor made it all clear. The fact was that the school teacher couldn't teach the way I needed!! The tutor had a gift for teaching and was able to straighten it all out for me.
So maybe your dd just had a stumbling block that the resource teacher was able to overcome - voila! No more problems!
Count your blessings and grin!
Kris
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Post by shardstar on Mar 30, 2004 18:32:29 GMT -5
Thanks, kris! I bet that's it! She has a sped teacher for in room help at the moment, who has been working with her. Maybe she just figured my daughter's learning style out.
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