An intelligence test shows that she is normally intelligent, and deficiencies do not entitle Sue to school support to make up for the social problems she has inherited from her originating family.
She has a maths deficiency, but her every day knowledge ist phenomenal. (We assign this to our constant attempts to explain the world to our kids ;-)) ) She doesn´t show abnormal behaviour, she tries her best to come up to expectations. That´s good news.
But, on the other hand, she keeps losing sports gear, her rain coat has disappeared miracously into a big black hole, and she isn´t able to note down homework tasks.
It seems there are no measures to support her in her desperate attempts to get things straight - except the good will of her teachers who have to care for 28 other kids and ourselves.
So we still keep on working on that and we are trying not to give up.
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Ralph,
regarding losing things: it is a common knowledge that our brain loses its functionality when we are under stress. I experienced that last week and almost lost my purse with much money in it because I left it in a shop. Due to the kind people there I still have it. So maybe Sue is under heavy stress also...
Yes, Ulla, you´re so right. You can probably imagine now how very difficult it is for a traumatised child to be able to keep things together. The trauma means constant stress in every-day life, as these children, and not only children, feel threatened by every situation which arises and is unknown. It is well-known that also adults lose their abilities to manage every-day life situations after a serious car accident or those who had been traumatised by the Eschede train desaster.
There are only three ways to cope with such the deficiencies of traumatised people: First: PATIENCE! Second: PATIENCE! Third: PATIENCE!
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