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[quote=Anonymous]How do you all decide how much to push your dcs, especially younger elem, in doing therapies, tutoring, etc?

DS is 6. Kindergarten was a struggle for him academically, but he got through it, albeit with a lot of support. He is losing most of his IEP services next year, though. His biggest weakness is speech sounds. He gets speech (and will continue to get it) 1:1 or 1:2 2-3x a week at school, and once a week privately. Unlike OT, which was relatively fun, speech is definitely a slog. (I'm sure he will end up in OT again down the road, but, appropriately, I think, OT has been removed from his IEP, and his private provider gave us her blessing to take a break for awhile).

I think it's easier to load up on therapies in early childhood, but now ds is getting more resistant and complains that other kids don't have to do these things and feels embarrassed and jealous that they get to play. When he's older, I imagine he will have more stamina to do therapies/tutoring plus fun things.

This summer, DS is in nature camp all day and loving it. I also have him doing ST once a week, swim lessons once a week, and tutoring once a week, all of which are chores for him, and which I pull him out of camp for. His tutor has mentioned twice a week would be even better. His older siblings have never done any worksheets or formal academic activities in the summer (but being more academically-inclined, they gravitate to finding enriching things to do.)

His tutor, a teacher at a Title I school, says that DS would have daily 1:1 "reading recovery" if he attended her school in 1st. Not being in a Title I school, we do not have those resources. While I am told there will be some "tier 2" interventions tbd, he will no longer be getting academic pull outs per his IEP.

TL;dr: For a young child who struggles academically and has some other sn, but has that capacity to be somewhere in that 30-40%ile range academically, resists learning activities but is very conscious and anxious about how he stacks up to his peers, how do you decide how much to push them with interventions?[/quote]

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