I've just realised how long it's been since I've posted here. Time for an update!!!
First of all - we now have our "official" paediatrician diagnosis for Nicky - Aspergers.
Half way through term three, it was brought up that Nicky may be bored at school. Thankfully, his year one teacher is AWESOME and helped us navigate things with the school. It was (eventually) planned for Nicky to go up to year two in term four, to see how it goes on two fronts - whether he could handle the work, and whether he could handle the social and maturity aspects. The latter was especially worrisome, because as he is born in June, he was already the fourth youngest in year one. Which means he would be WAY behind in age with the year two's.
He was put into the year two class where he was already doing math - Mr T's class. In the second week, Mr T exhibited concern that Nicky just wasn't coping - he wasn't keeping up in the social and maturity aspects. I had had a meltdown of my own the week before, so I pulled Mr T aside and was straight up about what was going on with me, and that this meant that at home, Nicky had no support in his schooling at all. That is - I wasn't researching, I wasn't working on ways to help him, and I wasn't even making sure he was doing his homework. All of which is MY fault, not his. Mr T seemed to take it on board (another AWESOME teacher).
Last week, the second last week for the year, my husband had a chat with Mr T. Nicky will be having him as a teacher next year - in year three!!! He's been doing really well, and while not always working hard, it has been noted I think, that it is his Aspie that is at fault there - i.e. he's fine with math, but hates writing lol...
He has also done some testing (as have all the year two's). In four areas of mathematics that he has only just seen in the last few weeks - that is, they didn't cover at all in year one - he scored 98%. Not bad, especially considering the test is designed for year three. His reading levels have come up too - officially he's at level 20 (the minimum for putting him up into year three was level 19). He was at 17. Realistically, he's at least five to ten levels higher - but he only "shows" us that when he thinks we're not looking, and he is reading something mathematics related - i.e. interesting to him.
Writing on the other hand - I guess we'll find out when his report card comes home. Ah well, we can't be all perfect :)
It would seem too, that his paperwork was all put in on time etc, and he should receive teacher aide time next year. I'm still not sure how that will play out (I hit a major low myself week before last, so again, other stuff has had to take precedence for now), but I'll make sure to get into it in the new year.
Behaviour-wise - it's the same old. He is rarely interested in anything that doesn't involve a screen, and bosses his brother around (though mind you - from time to time, his brother could do with some bossing around lol). Generally though, the two of them get along really well and there is a lot of love there. Nicky tries really hard - but gets caught up in logic and literalism a little too often.
As a family, we are still struggling, though that is more to do with me than him at the moment. It would be nice to know for sure if there's anything else we should be doing for him, but I'm trying not to feel too guilty while everything seems to be travelling ok with him.
