We got the great news yesterday that the practitioner feels that K could be helped by Neuro Reorg. After a difficult day back to school for her after at weekend at the grandparents, it was much needed good news. Our appointment is in early May and we are super excited about hearing what her thoughts are and getting more in depth feedback and information about the program.
On the school placement for N next year, we were able to network with a number of parents at the conference and got a LOT of great information including some unexpected information from one of the speakers who is an advocate for families with school districts. His information will be invaluable in our decision making process. In a nutshell, N is currently at a private Christian school that we love, but would be difficult, if she needs academic help going forward to come by, coupled with our concern that if she is in too far over her head with the very advanced academic program, she might develop, knowing her personality, a dislike of school. Our other option is to see if she qualifies for a dual language program at our public school. That would give her the learning in her native language but also build her English vocabulary, plus the resources are there for her if she needs assistance. Thinking we need to start a list of pros and cons. One thing we have noticed that some reasons for picking one school over the other are my hang ups not hers, for example, if she is not keeping pace at the private school, it is likely we would have her take kindergarten twice, while our younger daughter in the public school would move on to first grade. That bugs me, not necessarily her. I have not been able to pin point my exact issue with it, but it seems to point to the hierarchy of our family, i want N to be and feel like the older sister, as she can easily be bullied by K, and I think the grade level would add to that. N is already smaller than K and about 6 lbs lighter. But that is my issue, not necessarily hers. And how much the grade level would come into play with them at 2 different schools is questionable, the greater factor is probably their sizes and personalities at this age.
So, lots of stuff coming up in the next few weeks and I am hopeful we can do some blow by blow blog posts of the neuro reorg as we go along.
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