After School Homework Club *update* | Autism PDD

When picking Quinn up from school yesterday, his para who always comes out with him and gives me a brief report on how his day, suggested that Quinn should join the homework club. It sounds like it would work out well for him because his classroom teacher and his Sped teacher are the ones running it. I hadn't realized that before, I thought it was teachers that don't know Quinn or anything about him, or volunteers. I'm thinking of giving it a try. It's 1 hour long. they a snack first then they work on their homework.

When I told him about it, his first response was "No thanks!@..I don't have time for that".....lol..he says that for everything new...cracks me up sometimes.

Anyone else have kids in an afterschool homwork club?momof139390.3016435185I have never heard of anything like that before.  It sounds great, so he can just relax when he gets home.my oldest attends afterschool tutoriing but its really about homework or getting old work caught up. Its for everyone in the middle school and its held in the cafeteria. He isn't getting much done I am afraid.

I am thinking of talking with his Resource teacher about trying to get him into a more quiet area with someone one on one if he needs help or redirection because he gets so distracted so easily

Glad they had a solution for you and the homework issues. I wish we had that at the elementary level.

I had to LOL because my son says the same thing, "I don't have time for that!" or "I have a life to lead!" He says it in many situations that he just wants no part of. It cracks us up.

We signed Zach up for something like this, but it was an afterschool program, not just homework help. It turned out to be a disaster only because there were like 50 kids that ended up in the program. He told us himself he wanted to quit, everyone was too loud and caused too many problems and he couldn't handle it. We were so relieved it was his idea because we were getting ready to make the decision for him.

It sounds like what they have for your son would be worth a try. If it is run by people who know him well, it could be a very positive thing.

If we had that, I'd volunteer myself if I had to!  My son always says home is home, and school is school, so doing school work at a school program would probably be easier for him, and it might help seeing with his own eyes that other kids have to do homework, too.

I hope it works out well for you.

 

I didn't sign him up before because I thought it would be to many kids, to much stimulation and be run by volunteers who don't know him.

If it is small enough it could be positive for him.momof139382.6980555556That is great I am glad he enjoyed it..  If hw is to much ask for no hw in the iep. Fantastic~ He went this past Thursday and came out saying that he loved it!
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