Oh and good luck! :)

Thanks everyone!

I called the school today and spoke with the vice-principal (who had spoken with Matt's teacher earlier). They are on the same page with me. They have arranged for Matt to work in the hallway (which is common for students to do so Matt won't be singled out here) when he is getting to anxious, they are looking at moving his desk away from the noise makers. I am encouraged by this. I am also going to speak with Matt's therapist next week about this and the school will use any suggestions he has, also, to manage this.

I'm hoping the therapist can help with teaching Matt some techinques to handle his anxiety in a way that isn't tuning out his teacher so dramatically.

I'm impressed with how accomodating the school is and that they are willing to work with myself and therapist on all fronts to manage this. They know that I am looking into more effective techniques for Matt's anxiety management at the same time.

Attack it from all fronts!! I'll let you guys know how this goes!!

Again thanks for the support!!

Bec

Sounds good!

Thanks for the welcome

Hello Becvan
I finally had time to read all of your threads on tist section of the page ,, will check the rest in the intro section later ,,, kind of bacwards I no but u no how it go's
My daughter help me thru lots of my stuff just by being a lovin child ,, And I was able to give her one heck of out look on life ,,, we did lodes of stuff together , and got to travel { the cheap way ) quite a bit ,, she also got to understand just how hard lifes lessons can be ,
It is a great thing you are doing with your child ,, and I know from expiereance how hard it is to do and still try to get better at the same time ,, coopto's on the bighting or tonge ,,, thas hard to do ,,, My mon looked at me one day and said to me "You have an aful lot of patience with thak child" she was giving me one huge compliment ,,, and hear is to you see ya Beatle

Update!

The school contacted me last week. They are starting a pilot project at Matt's school, for grages 4 -6, to work on social skills in small group twice a week, during school hours. Matt's was the first name on the list! So they called me and asked if I would be interested (like duh! of course) and they are sending all the paperwork for me to sign this week. There will be no more than six boys in the group and they will work together, on projects and games etc. for an hour and a half every week.

I think this is great. Matt has really been struggling socially, and we have not been recieving any help along the way, so I'm rather excited!

bec

great, i hope it is a wonderful and fun learning experience for him.
cathy