Guest guest Posted February 1, 2001 Report Share Posted February 1, 2001 for nahtan's testing we were at our reg doc and he mentioned getting his behaviors looked more into etc, so we did and it was a couple hour interview/questions with us, and watching/observing trying to to talk to nathan too. shawna. --- Gordon Burnett wrote: > <<Valarie, > > Do you want a definiation of what autism is? > Or do you want the > characterics (hope I spelled it right) of autism? > I'll be glad to look at > the internet and find some information about > anything that you want about > autism.>> > > > Thanks for your offer, but I do know what autism > is & I also know how to > look it up on the Internet -I'm learning fast! What > I wanted to know was > what kind of tests were done & what kinds of doctors > people took their kids > to to get the diagnosis of autism. The parents on > this List will help me > sort thru it all, but thanks for your interest. > Also, I want to encourage > you to teach sign language to any of the children > you babysit, whether they > have special needs or not. When I taught > Kindergarten, I taught the > children a few signs - toilet being one of them. > When I was teaching a > lesson or when we were in Circle, they could just > sign to me " toilet " > without disrupting the class. A Kindergarten > child's favourite phrase is > " Can I go to the bathroom? " LOL Take care & good > luck with school. > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Hello all, My son (Micheal) uses sign language to communicate at home and is fairly good at it. He started middle school this year and the speech pathologist is the only one that signs at his new school. She only sees him 20 minutes 3x per week. I did some observations and it was obvious that his attempts to communicate with sign language were not picked up on or explored at all. At his elementary school he had the same teacher since kindergarten and was well understood there. We are trying to get him to use a dynavox but he like to stim on certain words/pictures - so this will be a work in progress for some time. Anyway my question is has anyone had success in requiring a teacher or parapro that works with his or her child to know sign language? Another question is about band. played in band last year and had a parapro that knew how to read music. I just found out that all he's been doing this school year is clapping or tapping his foot to the music. So now he is suppose to be playing percussion instruments. His parapro does not read music. Is there any way to require a parapro that reads music for this class? Thanks for any help/suggestions.Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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