advice dealing with teacher

September 22, 2006

I have a 7 y/o with HFA. We live in South Florida. His is in a First Grade

Autism Class. There are several classes and this is the class for " higher kids,

Aspergers, pdd). Last year we had her and she complained of him being hyper,

not focusing, disrupting class. That he is so smart if he could just focus. So

we tried meds. From October to June we tried about four or five different meds

that worked for a month and stopped, disrupted his sleep, he was having

accidents during the day, and changed his personality, etc.

He had a great summer and beginning of the school year. The teacher just found

out, about 2 weeks ago that he was no longer on meds. She seemed surprised and

said, " oh, he's being good " .

He has a cold. Wednesday he was really off. Wouldn't listen in the library,

pushed kids on the playground. Could not focus. I kept him home yesterday b/c

of the congestion so he could rest.

This morning while dropping him off I went to talk to her. I asked her what

triggered the behaviors and she said " I don't know, why don't you ask him " . She

said he was running around the libarary and was destroying books. I said, what

was the consequence. Why was he allowed to do this? She said he was sat in a

chair. She said he can get suspended for tearing books. I questioned her b/c of

his disability, if this was the case, she then seemed angry and questioned me,

" are you telling me he doesn't understand that ripping books is wrong " . She

then said he pushed kids on the playground. I told her that it was not an

acceptable behavior. I said how often does this happen, and she said " Just

Wednesday " . She then said, this wasn't right and these are someone elses

children being pushed around.

I just walked away, got into my car and broke down in tears. I have a good kid.

For some reason he had a bad day and his behaviors were out of control. But to

threaten me. He has a dx of autism. He is in the " autistic " class. He has

apraxia and is really just learning to talk clearly now at age seven. He has

an IEP. I mean, this is ridiculous. Is it not her job to ensure he is safe and

meet his needs when he's in school?

Using this excuse about how smart he is, I think is to guilt/force me into

putting him back on medications again. Ugh..my head is going to explode.

I'm just trying Feingold Program now. I definitely notice hyper behavior from

certain foods, colorings. Blue dyes make him bounce off walls. So do hot dogs so

I think, for him, there is a nutritional trigger.

I'm just besides myself.

Ann

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