I am considering homeschooling my 5 year old son. He is quite gifted verbally (IQ >150), but has poor visual-motor integration and very poor fine motor skills. (He scores in the first percentile on the motor subtest of the VMI, sixth percentile overall on this test).
The district wants to place him in a regular kindergarten class with pull-out services once a week for giftedness and OT for the motor skills, although he completed the kindergarten curriculum last year at a private school, and excelled at everything except writing. He reads at a third-grade level, but can't form letters well yet.
My gut feeling is that a regular classroom will be alternately boring and humiliating for him.
I think that if I keep him home, we will be able to do more OT to improve his skills, and will be able to differentiate and compact his curriculum more effectively than a teacher who is trying to teach 20-some-odd children in a regular kindergarten.
I am supposed to meet with them Tuesday to write an IEP. Any ideas on how to handle this? I would love to find a way to continue to access services for him through the school system - I just don't want him sitting for days doing nothing productive while the other children learn their colors and shapes!
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Aculady
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