Re: We are in a dilemma

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, you can have the family call Advocacy, Inc. here in Austin.

They can give legal advise and will take some cases on themselves.

Jill

>Hi, My daughter witnessed a 4 year old moderately to severe

>autistic boy in my grandson's P.P.C.D. class be slapped repeatedly

>with a ruler on his hand, wrist, and legs by the highly credentialed

>teacher. I say highly credentialed because he has more than once

>extolled these credentials to me in an irritated manner because he

>resents the knowledge and the involvement I have in the ARD

>meetings. Before this happened he had already denied giving my

>grandson gluten and casein food that we believe is detremental to

>him. Though two specialists have written letters to the school that

>Tristan needs to be on the diet, he has for two years been opposed

>to it, and we have suspected that he at times has given Tristan

>things that are not on the diet. We suspected it because of

>Tristan's behaviours when returning from school. A parent who has

>spent time in the classroom relayed to me that she has seen Tristan

>given food not on the diet. I had asked her to observe whether this

>was !

>happening as well as to notice how much time was spent on one on one

>teach which is in the IEP. They have graciously agreed to 3 and

>half hours a day of one on one teach using different teaching

>methods such as ABA, TEACHH and floortime. It looks very good on

>paper but we are pretty sure he may not even get one full hour a day

>of this type of instruction. The rest of the day he is allowed to

>walk in circles stimming if not left on the toilet alone, up to 15

>minutes at a time. Anyway, he was put on administrative leave and

>hired an attorney, and he denied that he did this. He said he was

>striking a table. My daughter states there was no table near them,

>but that the teacher would repeatedly strike the childs's hand and

>wrist (which the teacher actually held to secure) when he touched a

>rope that had been put there to teach him to respect barriers, as he

>is a runner. My daughter said it upset her so much that he was

>actually hitting him with a ruler, but also that he s!

>eemed to want the child to reach out touch the rope again so that he

>could strike him. He seemed to have an angry look on his face as he

>was doing this. After repeating this several times he turned the

>child around and walked him across the room slapping the back of his

>legs with the ruler. I won't go into anymore details, but the

>school superintendent is accepting the version of the teacher and

>Aid. By the way, the Aid that was in the room, continued to write,

>and did not look toward this incident as it happened, and later

>wrote that she didn't see or hear anything like my daughter

>described. We are reluctant to send Tristan to his classroom now.

>We don't believe that the teacher will continue to use this form of

>discipline (or torture) because he probably is pretty scared himself

>right now, but that he might harm Tristan by his hostility in other

>ways, manner of speaking, jerking him, etc. We absolutely don't

>trust the man anymore, and he has been Tristan's teacher!

> for 2 years previous. It is just this school year that are trust

>has eroded. I am in touch with Federation for Families, and hope

>they can refer this family to an attorney to help with this, but

>they are a poor family and would need it to be probono. Both the

>boy struck and my grandson are nonverbal moderate to severely

>autistic. CarlsonGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer

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>

>

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Advocacy, Inc. is a free service and would most likely be able to help them.

http://www.advocacyinc.org/

Advocacy, Inc.

7800 Shoal Creek Blvd. #171-E

Austin, TX 78757-1024

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We got them involved in our son's case when he was suspended.

Tonya Hettler

We are in a dilemma

Hi, My daughter witnessed a 4 year old moderately to severe autistic boy in

my grandson's P.P.C.D. class be slapped repeatedly with a ruler on his hand,

wrist, and legs by the highly credentialed teacher. I say highly

credentialed because he has more than once extolled these credentials to me

in an irritated manner because he resents the knowledge and the involvement

I have in the ARD meetings. Before this happened he had already denied

giving my grandson gluten and casein food that we believe is detremental to

him. Though two specialists have written letters to the school that Tristan

needs to be on the diet, he has for two years been opposed to it, and we

have suspected that he at times has given Tristan things that are not on the

diet. We suspected it because of Tristan's behaviours when returning from

school. A parent who has spent time in the classroom relayed to me that she

has seen Tristan given food not on the diet. I had asked her to observe

whether this was happening as well as to notice how much time was spent on

one on one teach which is in the IEP. They have graciously agreed to 3 and

half hours a day of one on one teach using different teaching methods such

as ABA, TEACHH and floortime. It looks very good on paper but we are pretty

sure he may not even get one full hour a day of this type of instruction.

The rest of the day he is allowed to walk in circles stimming if not left on

the toilet alone, up to 15 minutes at a time. Anyway, he was put on

administrative leave and hired an attorney, and he denied that he did this.

He said he was striking a table. My daughter states there was no table near

them, but that the teacher would repeatedly strike the childs's hand and

wrist (which the teacher actually held to secure) when he touched a rope

that had been put there to teach him to respect barriers, as he is a runner.

My daughter said it upset her so much that he was actually hitting him with

a ruler, but also that he seemed to want the child to reach out touch the

rope again so that he could strike him. He seemed to have an angry look on

his face as he was doing this. After repeating this several times he

turned the child around and walked him across the room slapping the back of

his legs with the ruler. I won't go into anymore details, but the school

superintendent is accepting the version of the teacher and Aid. By the way,

the Aid that was in the room, continued to write, and did not look toward

this incident as it happened, and later wrote that she didn't see or hear

anything like my daughter described. We are reluctant to send Tristan to

his classroom now. We don't believe that the teacher will continue to use

this form of discipline (or torture) because he probably is pretty scared

himself right now, but that he might harm Tristan by his hostility in other

ways, manner of speaking, jerking him, etc. We absolutely don't trust the

man anymore, and he has been Tristan's teacher for 2 years previous. It is

just this school year that are trust has eroded. I am in touch with

Federation for Families, and hope they can refer this family to an attorney

to help with this, but they are a poor family and would need it to be

probono. Both the boy struck and my grandson are nonverbal moderate to

severely autistic. CarlsonGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer

download : http://explorer.msn.com