Re: fighting with the School

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lyn,

Thank you for your reply. I had already gathered that this was where we were

going.

I'm a single mom, so I can't " afford " it financially, but I can't " afford "

not to keep on

with his home program on VB, where he is showing so much improvement in such

a

short amount of time, either. I'm just P.O.ed about the school's ABA team

falsifying records/data

to show progress that both sides know he had not made until this new home

program. I admire your

strength to continue the " good " fight. Which I plan to do in the future, but

for now, I feel that they leave

me no other choice but to eject him from their program. Besides they've

proven to me

that lying, manipulating the truth and falsifying data is not beneath them

and this fight could

go on forever. I shutter to think of him losing what the VB home program has

given him and see

him slip away from me again. I know that you understand. I'm also glad to

hear that your

daughter is coming along so nicely. I wish you and your family the best. I

truly do.

Thank you,

Cyndy

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> If this were me, actually it has been me and my daughter, I think you have

> two choices here, first would be to run like hell from the public school

> system, (which is what most people do, who can afford it and those who

have

> some training and be glad you don't have to think about screwing your kid

up

> worse because you had to stand by and things happen to your kid) like the

> second option (what I got stuck doing) which was stopping the private

> school/home program because in the long run it will probably screw up the

kid

> worse to do something that is great and then doing something that is quite

> crappy at the same time. I would tell them (public school people) (I would

> get an ABLLS done prior to stopping stuff) and that I am having my child

> evaluated by an outside source (school psychologist), then I would stop

the

> home program. I would then wait with great trepidation for the child to

fail

> and ultimately regress. Took my daughter about 6 months to lose everything

> gained (97%) of skills gained from a fabulous program. I tried to keep

> things going at first, (undoing the crap I was seeing at home as a result

of

> shit teaching) then I just stopped, and let time take its course. I had

hired

> a fabulous lawyer and we are now seeing this thing out in federal court. I

> have to tell you it was quite difficult to see my child regress and we

even

> did Due Process and though it was evident that program was flawed, no

> training and no body who could be bothered, a bunch of incredible lying

> (administrators, teacher, aides) not enough time had gone by to show

> regression. But after about 3 months I saw the whole thing go down the

tubes

> and the psychologist I think was as unhappy as I was to know we had been

> stuck to let this kid lose everything. I look forward to federal court,

my

> daughter is back at her incredible private school and doing fabulous

again. I

> would not recommend the second option by no means. But I will say this,

while

> it took several months to fix the crap, hitting, increase in SIB, and a

> distinct loss of all skills that had been noted present prior to letting

the

> stupid public school people have her, she is now making progress in leaps

and

> bounds, talking conversationally, learning to read, write. She counts

things

> out nicely, talks about what is going on while she is doing it. It is a

very

> hard thing to see your child do badly and then have to sit in the same

room,

> with people you know can't be bothered and are still continuing to exhibit

> behavior that reflects how much they really don't care. I will probably

> always be angry at them for their ignorance, but if any justice occurs

here,

> they will pay dearly and perhaps a few other children will not be lost to

> people who just collect a check. Best to you lyn

>

> cynd1270@... wrote:

>

> > This is my 1st post here. I have a question for you all. My

> > son has been in a very poor ABA program offered through the

> > school sytem for the past 5 mths.

> >

> > He is 3 1/2 yrs old and has reaced a verbal stage since

> > hiring a home consultant for a Verbal Behavior Program. The

> > SS came to the training but refuses to modify their program

> > to incorporate errorless teaching, mixing and varying and

> > other consistency issues. They refuse to argue over

> > " metodology " and say that if I don't except their cookie

> > cutter approach of a program (that by the way my son made

> > almost zero progress in, no goals met, no benchmarks

> > met/mastered) that they are not able to meet his goals. When

> > I argue that I will be giving him more 1 on 1, more success,

> > and address the goals of the IEP. Any suggestions gang?

> >

> > Please help me! (My son is doing beautifully in the new VB

> > progra

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