[blondeboss]

Our son was given a 52 IQ in kindergarten. He was being severly neglected. When he arrived at our home 1 1/2 years ago he was labeled cogn. Impaired. Put in spec. ed. with 8 students. He mimicked the other childrens behavior, especially in speech. I had him retested hoping to move him up to a learning disabled classroom. (oh by the way he was in third grade doing kindergarten work.he recieved a 65 this time, but was also dealing with a lot of emotional problems. Our school district would not move him up due to IQ test scores.He needed to have at least a 72 IQ. Luckily a new charter school opened just down the road from us. They believe in learning styles. He is in a reg. third grade class(we did hold him back because of maturity, and he is very small in stature)he recieves resource room help in only math,and since there is an IEP he has a slightly lower work load, but he has been on the honor roll all year! He went from spelling words like cat, bat, the to comprehension, interrogation, ect. He is also learning multiplication and division.I never would have thought this possible last year. He wouldn't even have a conversation with us, and answered every question with I don't know.
We just did some training with Dr. Post's beliefs, and they now think these children that have been traumatized and labeled can change. When put in a safe and stable enviroment the brain can heal and begin to use different parts(hippacampus and cortex). When thses children arrive they usually only use the amygdala(the part that is fight or flight)part of the brain, so nothing can retain.Something like that. Dr. Post offers many books and such if you were interested in fing out more. Just don't give up, and keep raising that bar, if they can't reach it at least they were given the opportunity to try.