Hi, I find it difficult to find the correct words so please don't take anything the wrong way, whoops started with a negative ...
Ok I really don't know what to do for the best so I'll start with a bit of background. I have home schooled since the start of the Jan term. The reason is Ds's additional needs and lack of support in school which led to my ds being seen by CAMHS for mental health issues .... 0/10 confidence, 2/10 self esteem, not sleeping and that sort of thing. He was in year 10 so I took him away from his GCSE's but he wasn't coping with the controlled assessments and was off sick more than at school (funnily enough the school sent a report after he left & his grades had gone up despite not being there a lot of the previous half term .... Go figure)
He has got a definite diagnosis of dyslexia from a private E.P, paed report mentioned dyspraxia but it was the first I knew (at 15). He did have a diagnosis of ADHD (Inattentive type - no hyperactivity) but due to the medication not working doc said perhaps not ADD? We (cough ... I mean me & IPSEA in that 'we') were battling with the L.A. at the time so it may have caused a nervous ricochet. Anyway CAMHS have just done an ADOS test 3 week ago and my stress may be caused by the wait ... I'm sure it'll be fine but perhaps I think that coz I may be 'different' myself & everything about ds seems normal to me.
Ahhhhh sorry no structure to my post ... I've been fighting and fighting for help in school since my ds was 7, I'm not overly impressed by the system.
Ok to the point ... My son only wants to study computers, he built one as his first home school project, he succeeded (very proud but 'very much' poorer mum) although there were ups & downs which I saw as positive learning but he didn't. The problem is that to study anything whatsoever you need to have English and maths but (to be honest) he won't get English & he hates studying maths (he was put off at some point).
I know, it's a long story to ask a simple question but ... Can you study with the open university or something like that and completely bypass the usual GCSE route. I don't think sitting his IGCSE's will be good for him as firstly he is not interested and secondly he could not concentrate for that long to do the exams.
He is an absolutely lovely boy (daydreamer), very clever (94 percentile for matrices but no idea what career matrices are in ) but he doesn't socialise apart from on-line with his friends and then the focus is on the game. We live in the middle of nowhere so I'm also worried that he will become isolated with on-line courses.
I've already had the L.A. around and I got a glowing home school report but that may be because they were delighted I 'went away' (I was after a private school for dyslexic children - loads of £'ssss), plus I wrote everything we did down.
So sorry ... I have gone on a bit ... Hope some of it makes sense to someone. P.s. I can 't reply instantly coz I've had to type this twice due to it being lost (1st version was so much better haha) so soooo much to do ... Thanks for listening
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Daisy8888 · 05/03/2013 21:10
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