Thoughts on academic work causing tiredness due to BPI?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:01 pm
As some background, Michael (ROBPI) is 4 years old and recently started preschool again (his preschool runs on the same schedule as the public school system - so it started at the beginning of Sept). In order to help him transition to full day K next year, I enrolled him 3 full days (9:15-2:00). Last year, he went 4 days - 2 days were 9:15-1:00 and 2 were 9:15-11:45.
He has been complaining of being very tired (he hangs on my shirt and sucks his thumb or simply lies down on the rug at school) since school started (but won't nap at all). I was talking about it with his teacher this am (she taught him 1 day a week last year, so she knows him) and she said that she had discussed it with the director (who was his teacher last year) and they were wondering if the increased academic challlenges are causing the tiredness. They are writing, cutting, drawing, painting and doing sign language every day. I should mention that they aren't having the problem with any of the other kids to the extreme that they are having it with Michael.
What do you think? He has very good function/range and hasn't been in formal therapy for 1.5 years but likes sports of all sorts (basketball, football, golf, baseball) and plays something most every day so I kind of let him do his own therapy, if you will.
Has anyone else had a situation like this?
Thanks - I appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.
Sally
BTW, FWIW, he had the Mod Quad at 13 months old.
He has been complaining of being very tired (he hangs on my shirt and sucks his thumb or simply lies down on the rug at school) since school started (but won't nap at all). I was talking about it with his teacher this am (she taught him 1 day a week last year, so she knows him) and she said that she had discussed it with the director (who was his teacher last year) and they were wondering if the increased academic challlenges are causing the tiredness. They are writing, cutting, drawing, painting and doing sign language every day. I should mention that they aren't having the problem with any of the other kids to the extreme that they are having it with Michael.
What do you think? He has very good function/range and hasn't been in formal therapy for 1.5 years but likes sports of all sorts (basketball, football, golf, baseball) and plays something most every day so I kind of let him do his own therapy, if you will.
Has anyone else had a situation like this?
Thanks - I appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.
Sally
BTW, FWIW, he had the Mod Quad at 13 months old.