Homeschooling was Re: School discipline problem...advocation suggestions??

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> >

> > So many great ideas....

> > I notice that every time I read about these problems at school

I

> get almost physically sick and tired. We have had the same problems

> due to lack of knowledge on the part of the therapist(s) or the

> teacher or the administrative people in the school. The bad thing

is

> that these people write reports and unless the person reading the

> report has the HFA person in front of them and can see/hear how

> garbled the communication, how easily sensory overloaded, how much

> the HFA shuts down in those situations, etc. the report from the

> ignorant " professional " is taken as Gospel. It took a good

disability

> attorney who read the reports and finally found one sentence from

an

> OT " functions at the 3 yr old level " (child was 6 at the time of OT

> exam) to have him start to question the qualifications of the

people

> writing the other observations. This attorney had me bring the

child

> in to his office. After chatting with (or rather, being chatted at

> about the child's obsession) for 30 minutes,

> > the attorney turned to me and said: No, problem... we will win.

> The disability evaluator person testing/observing the child a few

> months later turned to me after 45 minutes and whispered: why are

we

> doing this (it was obvious to her after 45 minutes that yes, the

> child was indeed disabled due to his autism). So, we home school

> because I am no longer willing to subject this child to the

ignorant

> professionals and paraprofessionals in our school systems (We are

in

> Kansas). I am highly selective as to who works with this child

after

> observing his wonderful and terrible experiences with people who

are

> informed/educated about autism and those who are not. I'm here for

> the long run. Leaving him with people who may be well-meaning, but

> are ignorant (not stupid, just uneducated/uninformed) about autism

> for 6 hours or 15 minutes in a day of " school " is more than a waste

> of time, it is a loss of his future because when he spends time

with

> unqualified professionals he simply cannot

> > and does not learn. He is the happier and more educated for this

> decision. BTW, at age 9 he is slowly catching up with his age peers

> in terms of reading fluency and comprehension. Something he never

> would have been able to do in the brick and mortar.

> >

> > I used to have a great deal of faith in the public school

system

> and in the brick and mortar school system...... no longer. I highly

> recommend home schooling for almost any child with a label and even

> for those with no label.

> >

> > Priscilla in Kansas

> >

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