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I will look up 504 and IEP and EMDR. When I met with the counselor I asked if there were any services we could get for my daughter and she said no, that they mainstream all kids regardless of their disabilities.
Regarding the question of how long does it take to complete the homework, I don't know, we have never managed to complete it all. We put 8 hrs into it on Sunday and about 4 each day until Thursday we had the therapy appt and could only do 2 hrs. One of those nights she fell asleep, after first making sure I would keep reading and summarize it for her while waiting for the bus in the morning.
By Thursday I was so miserable about having insufficient sleep all week I started crying when it was 2 hrs past her bedtime and 1 hr past mine and we were still doing math. That sure didn't help us get finished!
Part of the time is spent reading the material, and then some is spent finding the answers for the assignments, a lot of time is spent just writing it all down, she has one teacher who assigns them to write the definitions of terms exactly as they are in the book's glossary, and it takes my daughter a LONG time to write it all out.
And it is so frustrating that regardless of all the time we put into it, none of the information sinks in. She haphazardly applies formulas without understanding when they are appropriate or what it all means. We can spend 45 minutes on an assignment and then I ask her a question about it and she has no clue about any of it.
Unfortunately she falls apart at the idea of leaving anything blank/undone, or at just making a good guess at the answer. It HAS to be correct or she will fall into hysterics.
Also, one or two of her teachers give her 'lunch detention' if she doesn't have her assignments completed, so she has that as an added pressure. And she is obsessive about not disappointing her teachers.
I have tried suggesting to my daughter that we have a timer for each assignment and then just stop at that point. She says she is willing for us to try it, but I feel sure she'll fall into hysterics when it comes time to set an assignment aside in an incomplete state.
Also she suggested today that she could change her goal of getting all A's to trying to get A's all year in just one of her classes.
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