ABA/VB/ Rome

[Guest guest]

Thank you for your letter. I have been so off and on about this ABA school. Mic

right now is in pre-school in the center for disabled and they use floortime and

some ABA approaches. its only 5 minutes from my house and we've had so many

medical issues. I have been keeping him close to home the ABA school is 48

miles away.From what the director tells me they will make a program especially

for Mic and use Vb. Mic cannot attend in his current classroom so he gets a lot

of one to one therapy out of classroom with therapists.He needs socialization

he's an only child.He loves the other kids but stands back and watches and claps

and laughs he doesn't play with them or even dance with them.He stands back in a

corner and watches just too much input in the classroom.He does his best one on

one alone to learn so for this year and 2 more surgeries we are going to keep

him close to home.I'm not even sure I can get him in the ABA school but am going

to try my hardest.It's all autistic kids right now. Mic could teach them a lot

on how a child can be social and still autistic.Mic loves people as long as they

don't touch him.He also needs time out to do some some self stim which they are

giving him at school, when he begins to melt down they give mic his big

rubberband to dangle and chew which is his favorite stim object although can

dangle things like pens and belts even a piece of paper.His dangling is getting

alot less now with age it used to be all the time now just when he seems to need

it.I wonder if ABA would approve of that I call it providing sensory input he

needs re: feed the need. would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks Laurie

[Guest guest]

hi laurie,

he sounds like a special lovable boy. he has quite a plateful and so do you.

so much to deal with. I totally understand about wanting to keep him close to

home. does your district/state have in home teachers? I know here in new york

if you have a autism diagnos you can home teachers.

about the stim time, if its a reinforcer or sort of time out(not for bad

behavior) I think its ok. as long as he does not do all day for long periods of

time. strict aba programs though would not approve of it.

with all he's gong through a little stim time will not harm him

my heart goes out to you and your a great mom just trying to do your best.

always remember that

hope this helped

chris

Laurie Drago <mick8_7@...> wrote:

Thank you for your letter. I have been so off and on about this ABA school. Mic

right now is in pre-school in the center for disabled and they use floortime and

some ABA approaches. its only 5 minutes from my house and we've had so many

medical issues. I have been keeping him close to home the ABA school is 48

miles away.From what the director tells me they will make a program especially

for Mic and use Vb. Mic cannot attend in his current classroom so he gets a lot

of one to one therapy out of classroom with therapists.He needs socialization

he's an only child.He loves the other kids but stands back and watches and claps

and laughs he doesn't play with them or even dance with them.He stands back in a

corner and watches just too much input in the classroom.He does his best one on

one alone to learn so for this year and 2 more surgeries we are going to keep

him close to home.I'm not even sure I can get him in the ABA school but am going

to try my hardest.It's all autistic kids right

now. Mic could teach them a lot on how a child can be social and still

autistic.Mic loves people as long as they don't touch him.He also needs time out

to do some some self stim which they are giving him at school, when he begins to

melt down they give mic his big rubberband to dangle and chew which is his

favorite stim object although can dangle things like pens and belts even a piece

of paper.His dangling is getting alot less now with age it used to be all the

time now just when he seems to need it.I wonder if ABA would approve of that I

call it providing sensory input he needs re: feed the need. would love to hear

your thoughts. Thanks Laurie