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Hi Adnan,

I have it the opposite way. My sons teacher " this year " says she see none of

my concerns. He is a roll model and I think she believes she cured him of

Autism. LOL, I am so beyond that! His swim instruction says my son is ready to

even jump up two levels (ahead) but she is holding him back because he does not

follow her instructions. When she explains her lesson, my son is under water.

before he goes for other lessons that he has, (with other things) I have to go

over the rules before he goes for his lesson and this helps. this instructor is

very patient with him. His tutor sees all the concerns I see and wrote this to

his teacher, so, I believe she questioned the tutor. I gave them doctors notes

explaining the concerns with my son but they just don't see it. However, his

teacher from last year, noticed everything, LOL even stuff I didn't notice. And

she let me know about her concerns every - every day... She also told the staff

her concerns and she (last years

teacher) told me that they just don't listen to her. said - A parent has more

input than her. She even told her concerns at the CSE meeting and she was kind

of cut off with another question. This year, the same child is cured, LOL. I

had to keep after them with my concerns and made them listen by repeating myself

each and every day. they finally noticed some of my concerns through testing

and working on them now. (wasted 2 years) but started now. If you have a

concern about your child. stick with it, and repeat yourself if you have to

'until they listen " ask the teacher, what can't you understand? Does your child

have a speech teacher? what does she have to say about his speech? Maybe the

teacher does not see your child's baby steps (progress) he made and she is

looking for too much.(big progress) Some people just don't want to see or hear

the parents concerns. (make them) I don't mean physically, but show them doctor

reports, progress reports - if he doesn't

have any progress reports, request them. - get a letter from the swim

instructor noting the improvements that she sees. document all this and keep

the copies. Good Luck

Adnan Rafiq <adnan_rafiq@...> wrote:

i would like to thank, once again, for everyone's

input. this site is wonderful!

one thing that i notice with my son is that if he

doesn't warm up to anyone, he simply shows no desire

to interact with that person or acknowledge them in

any way. but, if he likes you --- he would play his

piano for you, bring his ABC blocks to you to play

with, would ask you to read a book and bunch of other

things.

unfortunately, for whatever reasons, he never warmed

up to his pre-K/PPCD teacher. while everyone in our

family and friends has commented that he seems more

mature and they can understand his language better

than few months ago, his preK teacher claims that she

does not understand a word of what he says. his

swimming instructor has commented several times that

she has seen huge improvements not just in language

but his overall demeanor and body language, yet his

school teacher sees him as someone who is severely

autistic and needs lifeskills class.

has anyone else come across this situation where your

child does so much more at home and with friends and

family, church, grocery stores, etc. but doesn't want

to interact with his teacher?

--- Trish <trish459@...> wrote:

> Hi:

> Generally here in Illinois, life skills classes

> focus on self-help

> skills like you described. I would investigate quite

> a bit more

> before I accepted that recommendation if I were you.

> It may be the

> right placement for your son but from what you have

> said, it seems

> like he could manage quite well in a regular ed

> kindergarten with

> proper support and even if he needed a smaller

> environment, there

> ought to be something between regular ed and

> " lifeskills " type

> programs. It is the responsibility of the school

> district to meet the

> needs of your child regardless of what programs

> exist in the

> district. If he needs something that they don't

> have, then they need

> to provide it, and it needs to be in the Least

> Restrictive

> Environment.

>

> My son has had an aide since kindergarten - he is

> now a freshman in

> High School. He managed in regular ed up until 6th

> grade but at that

> point we felt the social studies stuff was getting

> too complicated

> for him so we placed him in a smaller class for most

> of his day but

> he still had regular ed Science and Gym. He also did

> Tech Lab as his

> elective and was a big favorite of the Tech lab

> teacher.

>

> Good Luck with Everything.

>

> Trish

>

>

> >

> > Does anyone know what the curriculum is for a life

> > skills class? The teacher at my son's pre-K is now

> > recommending a life skills class. It is my

> > understanding that this is for kids who are

> > moderate-to-severe.

> >

> > My son who is 4.5 is pretty self-sufficient when

> it

> > comes to drinking water, eating his food, going to

> the

> > bathroom (he still asks us to wipe him), he is

> very

> > friendly and knows all his alphabet. His language

> is

> > still behind but he pretty much asks for anything

> he

> > needs (in sentences and not just words), he knows

> his

> > numbers and is fairly intelligent. He has no

> > aggressive behavior, no rituals or routines or

> > obsessions. Just delayed cognivitely and in terms

> of

> > language.

> >

> > We were under the impression that he was doing

> fairly

> > well in school until his pre-K/special education

> > teacher came out with this stunning verdict.

> >

> > The problem is that I know that he is fairly smart

> and

> > although he has delayed language I still want him

> to

> > stay on the academic track.

> >

> > We are thinking of not accepting their

> recommendation

> > for the life skills class and asking for a regular

> > pre-K and/or kindergarten with an aide.

> >

> > First of all, do we have the right to ask the

> school

> > district to provide us with an aide (doesn't have

> to

> > be full time)?

> >

> > Secondly, if they do not agree what legal recourse

> do

> > we have to make it happen?

> >

> > We live in Dallas, Texas by the way.

> >

> > __________________________________________________

> >

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You're welcome Rose Glad I could help! Anything I post is free to send on

to friends too.. Its about awareness in my books!

-- ( ) Lifeskills

Does anyone know what the curriculum is for a life

skills class? The teacher at my son's pre-K is now

recommending a life skills class. It is my

understanding that this is for kids who are

moderate-to-severe.

My son who is 4.5 is pretty self-sufficient when it

comes to drinking water, eating his food, going to the

bathroom (he still asks us to wipe him), he is very

friendly and knows all his alphabet. His language is

still behind but he pretty much asks for anything he

needs (in sentences and not just words), he knows his

numbers and is fairly intelligent. He has no

aggressive behavior, no rituals or routines or

obsessions. Just delayed cognivitely and in terms of

language.

We were under the impression that he was doing fairly

well in school until his pre-K/special education

teacher came out with this stunning verdict.

The problem is that I know that he is fairly smart and

although he has delayed language I still want him to

stay on the academic track.

We are thinking of not accepting their recommendation

for the life skills class and asking for a regular

pre-K and/or kindergarten with an aide.

First of all, do we have the right to ask the school

district to provide us with an aide (doesn't have to

be full time)?

Secondly, if they do not agree what legal recourse do

we have to make it happen?

We live in Dallas, Texas by the way.

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Adnan,

Whether or not warmed up to a teacher has depended completely

upon the teacher. Some teachers he has bonded with very well; others he

has gone out of his way to antagonize. It just depends on the degree

of connection he feels with the individual teacher. And whether or not

s/he makes him read " stupid " books like Catcher in the Rye. (He never

forgave his English teacher for that.) He didn't do anything to get

sent out of the room; he just sat and read Newsweek, and refused to

read Catcher in the Rye. We finally arranged for him to read different

books when the class was reading That Sort of Book. It's funny, but

the teachers he has liked best are those who are warm, have the most

structure and put up with the least amount of cr*p from the kids. Makes

him feel safe, I think.

Liz

On Apr 25, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Adnan Rafiq wrote:

> i would like to thank, once again, for everyone's

> input. this site is wonderful!

>

> one thing that i notice with my son is that if he

> doesn't warm up to anyone, he simply shows no desire

> to interact with that person or acknowledge them in

> any way. but, if he likes you --- he would play his

> piano for you, bring his ABC blocks to you to play

> with, would ask you to read a book and bunch of other

> things.

>

> unfortunately, for whatever reasons, he never warmed

> up to his pre-K/PPCD teacher. while everyone in our

> family and friends has commented that he seems more

> mature and they can understand his language better

> than few months ago, his preK teacher claims that she

> does not understand a word of what he says. his

> swimming instructor has commented several times that

> she has seen huge improvements not just in language

> but his overall demeanor and body language, yet his

> school teacher sees him as someone who is severely

> autistic and needs lifeskills class.

>

> has anyone else come across this situation where your

> child does so much more at home and with friends and

> family, church, grocery stores, etc. but doesn't want

> to interact with his teacher?

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