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Pre-Lesson 1 Profile

Communication

1. When your student tries to explain an idea or tell you about an event is the communication fragmented and incomplete?

2. When your student is trying to tell you something, does he or she have trouble knowing or finding the right words?

3. When frustrated about communication, my student says things like, "Never mind! Whatever! I wish I'd never brought it up!"

4. My student has trouble following directions

5. My student

6. Does your student now (before beginning IdeaChain) have your exclusive attention for 30 to 45 minutes a day several days a week?

7. My student's attitude toward doing MindPrime's IdeaChain program is

Homework

8. (Check all that apply.) For our family, homework

Is initiated by the student willingly
Takes all evening
Ends up with tantrum type behavior
Ends with everyone angry or hopeless or both
Is the focus of the entire evening
We take up half the time trying to figure out what the homework is, retrieving books from school or calling the teacher or friends

9. (Check all that apply.) My student works on homework

Independently. It is usually complete, correct and the student hands it in.
Independently and I check the work.
Only with my help, but works willingly.
Only with my help and I have to press the issue to get started and to finish.
Frequently refuses to do homework or says he or she has none (when there is some.)
Regularly doesn’t bring home materials needed to do homework.
We work until the whole process dissolves into a battle and we all throw in the towel.

10. (Check all that apply.) When we (or just the student) finish homework in the evening, generally, my student

Understands and can apply what we learned.
Has been hand carried through it and doesn’t really understand what we did.
We frequently don’t get it all done.
My student may not hand it in.

11. Homework usually takes

Attitudes

12. My student gets frustrated

13. My student's frustration tolerance is such that when he or she gets frustrated

14. My student's attitude toward school is

15. My attitude toward my student's homework is

Reading

16. My student reads words and passages

17. If your student SILENTLY read a paragraph of five to eight sentences, how much would he or she remember and be able to express to you in words?

18. If your student reads ALOUD a paragraph of five to eight sentences, how much would he or she remember and be able to express to you in words?

19. If YOU READ a paragraph of five to eight sentences TO your student, how much would he or she remember and be able to express to you in words?

Other Schoolwork

20. My student tends to work

21. My student's spelling is usually

22. (Check all that apply.) When your student has to write down his or her thoughts for an assignment, an essay, a research paper, etc.

The student can write down his or her thoughts easily.
Has moderate difficulty writing down thoughts, but can do it OK.
This is the most difficult task my student has to do in school.
Even after we have talked through the ideas, my student has a terrible time writing it down.
My student’s writing is bare bones. There is little description and sentences are frequently tied together with “And then they… And then they… And then they….” (or something similar.)

Time

23. Generally, these behavior patterns have been occurring for about

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