Lois/ Cat

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Hi, Everyone.....Lois....sounds to me like a 'bug' going around, but I don't

know of the side effects of Abilify. I would agree with your decision to

wait in increasing the Abilify till starts to feel better, though.

Cat....welcome to the group. My son is Gareth....18 y/o, We live in the

Lancaster area of Pa. As for schooling, we had to really fight in 1-3rd grade

to keep Gareth out of Life skills classes. They wanted him in there " because

he's mentally retarded and BELONGS with other mentally retarded kids. " I am

not lying about that statement either!!! The problem was the autism

kicking in and he needed to be in more of a autistic support class than the LS

class. He did fine in reg ed classes ( 1-5th grades) but needed to be pulled

out

to the resource room for more 1-1 help. Middle school was resource rooms

because he couldn't handle the changing of the classrooms and all the

commotion in the halls. In HS, he's in resource rooms and changes classes like

all

the other HS kids with no problems at all. Personally, if you can get your

kid into a resource room setting with other 'normal' peers (for modeling

behaviors) who are just slow learners, that turned out to be the best for

Gareth.

Our kids can learn to read, write, and do math......all at different

levels....just like the 'normal' kids are all at different levels.

Take care, Everyone.

Margaret