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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is he getting all of his work done, albeit inefficiently, or is he not finishing?

I think you’re either at a point or soon will be when your child needs to come up with strategies and make the decision about how to accommodate his disability.  So long as he’s not watching objectionable material, I’m not sure why it matters that he’s taking breaks unless he isn’t getting done. Then the question might be how to manage the breaks.  Or maybe he needs a different environment or a different time of day to do his work. Mine did his homework in the mornings in MS and his focus was laser sharp whereas at night he struggled.

In seventh grade, he’s halfway to HS and it will be really important for him to be managing his time and everything else. But you can’t wait until then to teach this because grades count for his future at that point where trial and error doesn’t have this type of risk in MS. [/quote]

Getting it done, but with holes / gaps. He has dysgraphia and low processing speed so I had been assuming some of the output issues was because of the low processing speed. In a weird way seeing that he hasn’t been working as intensely as thought is a relief.

No objectionable content—mix of sweet/silly/practical/interest oriented. Also happy that nothing on his school account. I guess when I was his age I’d “sneak” read teen mags/my own books instead of homework…

Main thing is these breaks cause the work to extend into evening or desired “free time” so I think main goal is to let him understand the link.[/quote]

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