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[quote=Anonymous][quote]12:55, this is OP. Thank you. So WRT homework, does this mean that if he does it at home with you, but forgets to hand it in, there is no follow-up because officially he has a "no HW" accommodation? This is where my child is struggling - getting the completed assignment to the teacher. At wit's end! Thank you[/quote]

In ES, every morning, the resource teacher would tape a checklist to his desk.  He would go into the class before everyone else and when it was quiet, he would complete the morning checklist and then get a book a read.  One of the things on the checklist was turn in homework.  At home, I also used checklists for things like morning routine.  I would hand him a clipboard and pen every morning.  So, the checklist idea was really ingrained for him.  We also had a few years of managing his backpack (experimenting with folders and binders, etc.).  So, by middle school, he started making his own check lists that he kept in the front of his binder.  When he arrived at each class, he looks at the checklist.

One other thing I did.  When he forgot to turn in the work, I gave him one extra day to do it.  If he forgot again, I would have him type the work into an e-mail to the teacher and send it that way.  It was not meant to be punishment but more to get him to understand that it is mandatory to do the work and turn it in.  If he wasn't successful in the normal way, then we had to find alternatives.  We came up with this together (well, I did and then sort of pushed him into thinking of it).

I'm in a really sweet place right now with my son, but writng this reminds me how long and hard it was to get here.  I hope some of this helps.  [/quote]

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