Posts by egoldber

Quote: I think it can work if the gifted child has a few peers (or at least one!) in the class and the teacher is very adept at differentiation. I agree. I think a wide degree of differentiation is difficult for the...

Quote: My dade tuk me to the pul. I divd in the dep nd. I mad a big spsh in the wotr. My dad sed WOW. Would be about right. Interesting. My older DD went to a small, private K and then our large public first. She...

Quote: Social skills are things like: noticing people's body language to see if they are interested in what you are saying ..... There's no need to limit one's self to "average subjects that everyone can relate...

Quote: Many exhibited inappropriate social skills for their age such as substituting monologues for conversations, interrupting peers, insistence of their own agenda versus going along with a group goal or sharing ideas with...

FWIW, my DD's issues are very much school related. In looking back, she always has a very hard time at predictable times of year: the first few weeks of the school year, when homework ramps up at the beginning of the second grade period,...

Quote: She did say that she felt therapy becomes more effective in later elementary school. Hmm. I see now that your DD is in K. I had concerns in K, and decided to wait. I don't know that I would wait as long as I...

I am the poster from the other thread whose DD sounds similar. I really could not disagree more with your friend. We did do a full neuropsych evaluation (including questionnaires for ADHD, anxiety, WISC IV, achievement tests and...

A friend of mine runs one of these at our local school. In our case, it is a good program, but she is a super star organizer. Each CI site has a volunteer who runs and coordinates the local program. (The same way that Hands On Science...

Quote: so when DO their writing skills improve? I've been following this thread with interest. My older DD is similar in many ways to the OP's son. For her, there was a huge leap in writing stamina between second...

Interesting. In the grand scheme of things our elementary school's lunches are not as terrible as some, but I think they are stll pretty bad. But they are $2.65 and if for $3 we could get a lot better food, that would be wonderful! The...