Homeschooling and Meds
We started the kids on a homeschool program.. It's a public charter school online. It's called www.k12.com. It is an aggressive program with a great group of teachers and staff. They provide OT and Speech Therapy and Special Education services.
Why homeschool? Well, we had some reasons:
So far, the meltdowns that Charlie would have in the mornings, the headaches and the tummy aches have stopped, but his curriculum is not really established yet. They want to put him on a program called Compass Learning, which is very engaging and interactive, but it has not been loaded onto his schedule yet.
I am doing a lot of reading to him and working one on one with him.
We also started him on Prozac, 10 mg, last week, under consultation with a psychiatrist. This is to help with some of his OCD behaviors and the meltdowns. Today I noticed the first positive thing, which, strangely enough, was that his hair was dirty. This was good because Charlie is so rigidly fixated on his bedtime routine, which includes bathing, but last night he broke from routine and just went to bed without the bath.
I had him take one today. He also seems more relaxed about a lot of things, but that may just be from being out of school. I'll keep updating this topic as it develops.
Why homeschool? Well, we had some reasons:
- We knew that Charlie had been bullied, but we didn't know who it was, Charlie told us the name on the second to the last day of school. It was a kid who had withdrawn much earlier in the year, but Charlie didn't know that and was too scared to tell us.
- Charlie was falling further and further behind due to his inability to understand the vocabulary in the school world. We wanted to bump up his vocab a lot.
- We knew that through the cyber school we could take him back to third grade level, which would be more appropriate for his development, without the stigma of him being in a class without his peers in the same school.
- We are moving in the school year and did not want to simply plunk Charlie down into a school where he would be the odd man out. We felt that with the cyber curriculum, we could maintain a lot of normality for him and then, if we decide to, transfer him to a school in the fall, having had IEP meetings during the summer.
So far, the meltdowns that Charlie would have in the mornings, the headaches and the tummy aches have stopped, but his curriculum is not really established yet. They want to put him on a program called Compass Learning, which is very engaging and interactive, but it has not been loaded onto his schedule yet.
I am doing a lot of reading to him and working one on one with him.
We also started him on Prozac, 10 mg, last week, under consultation with a psychiatrist. This is to help with some of his OCD behaviors and the meltdowns. Today I noticed the first positive thing, which, strangely enough, was that his hair was dirty. This was good because Charlie is so rigidly fixated on his bedtime routine, which includes bathing, but last night he broke from routine and just went to bed without the bath.
I had him take one today. He also seems more relaxed about a lot of things, but that may just be from being out of school. I'll keep updating this topic as it develops.
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