my DS is 5 years old and in Reception.
His teacher has said he is high ability but needs to work on his social skills. The school is a village school and it is all very relaxed and reception is seen as more of an extention of preschool.
He seems to have a photographic memory and can do maths in his head. He started school already knowing how to add, subtract, odd and even numbers. Patterns but school haven't really touched on it and aren't even aware that he was able to do it. Seems at parents evening we were telling her what he can do. He has been told he is the best in the class at reading and is year 1 level. They don' push them up the levels as they like their comprehension to be excellent.
At his preschool the manager thought he was gifted and had never met a child like him in 25 years of being there.
He was obsessed with locks at that stage and always trying to figure out how things worked. He never actually played with toys. He found his enjoyment through the computor accessing Cbeebies online from the age of 3. He had an obsession with the Octonauts and collect them all. but as soon as he had all of them the obsession ended abrutley. He is now obsessed with Sonic the Hedgehog. Plays the platform game on the xbox and will watch youtube videos of the game and then take the information to progress in the game.
He is very strongly routine based and reading this
www.autism.org.uk/living-with-autism/understanding-behaviour/obsessions-repetitive-behaviours-and-routines.aspx
he is very alike and bed time routine has to be exact down to me asking him a certain question before he goes to bed otherwise he wont go to sleep.
Today he was unexpectedly going to be having hot dinner but had a melt down at the door as he said he wanted a packed lunch as he only has hot dinners on Mondays and Fridays so he cant it. Nothing would change his mind so off he went with a pack lunch.
At times it is so frustrating. He also can get stuck in a loop about something and just cant seem to get out of it. For example. I pop in a present to my mums and he was in the car. Got back in and he said he needed to put the present in the house. I tell him I have already done it now. but he continues to say we have to go back. I need to put it in. no reasoning will help and he just continues to say I need to go back. The loop only stops until after a period of time of just ignoring it.
I know he hasn't got Autism as he is social boy and understands wit with a good sense of humour. Good eye contact but he seems to have the obsessions and repetitive behaviour part. :-/
Our gut instinct is he is gifted but his school haven't said to us and by what we hear at parents evening it didn't seem like they are really concerned by academia is the reception class.
Im just worried his quirks will be misinterpreted
Not really sure what I gain from writing this but i just worry so much about him.
Sorry to ramble on.
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