Extreme Separation Anxiety

AnonyMouse_19782 · 2010-10-01T16:56:39+0000

Hi everyone - some suggestions as to how to help this child would be appreciated.. We have a girl, she is 3 and a half, she has been with us a year. She was born 10 weeks prematurely - she has some weakness in the right hand side of her body which very much impedes the speed at which she moves about (although she was walking at 19 mos )and very recently has been diagnosed deaf in the left ear. She has quite a lot of time off with chest infections particularly during winter months. Since J started at pre-school last September she has needed the constant support of an adult to cope with pre-school, at home she shows she is able to do lots of activities, but so very often refuses to do similar things at pre-school, or indeed, play with any other children at pre-school, even her best friends which she plays with very well outside of pre-school. If the adult looking after her leaves her side she cries, during the summer term when she was feeling quite well in herself and had had no chest infections she managed to allow the adult to leave her side if the adult explained "I'm just going to ................ then I'll be back" and she accepted this and the adults kept their promise, she even managed to walk across the playground to get a toy she wanted and return to the adult's side. But this term this is not working. She finds it very difficult to find the confidence to walk from one side of the room to the other on her own or from one adult to another, but when mum comes to pick her up she will walk to her from the end of the hall on her own. Whilst J appears not to interact with other children she can relate stories about her morning to mum, she gets the giggles if one of the boys does anything silly or adults play teasing type games and when she has had periods of feeling well, has been able to sit in amongst other children during a storytime and interact with them. I am calling in the area SENCo for more advice, particularly because I can't imagine J in a busy Reception Class of 30 with one teacher and a TA. We have tried so hard to build up her confidence, but it's one step forward and 2 steps back most of the time, especially if she has had time off.

By AnonyMouse_19782
October 1, 2010 in All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues

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