Re: Sending a child in a class and no training w/Autism

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i would reconvene a meeting with the CSE and insist that a psychologist or behavior specialist who has experience with ASD kids be hired to supervise your child's placement, train the staff during class time with your son and collaborate with the teacher and PARA. see if there are any parent advocate groups in your area to help you and if you can swing it, bring a lawyer to your meeting or at the least have a lawyer send them a letter addressing your requests. sometimes the threat of legal action makes them anxious enough to comply. good luck!!

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i had no knowledge of asd till i was handed the responsabilitie of educating one.

i am an odd para as when i have a child, it is "my" child and i dig as deep into what ever issue they have and educate myself.

where I live para's are handed children, no education in any particular issue needed. sad but true.

i am in southern nj.

debra

Re: Sending a child in a class and no training w/Autism

i would reconvene a meeting with the CSE and insist that a psychologist or behavior specialist who has experience with ASD kids be hired to supervise your child's placement, train the staff during class time with your son and collaborate with the teacher and PARA. see if there are any parent advocate groups in your area to help you and if you can swing it, bring a lawyer to your meeting or at the least have a lawyer send them a letter addressing your requests. sometimes the threat of legal action makes them anxious enough to comply. good luck!!

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i was a para with no experiance, and was given a asd boy mid way through yr with the guidence of a behaviorist, dr buzz mingin, ( a god send!) within months i had made a remarkable difference, and was getting phones calls from home to my bosses. to praise me. the entire staff thinks i have made a world of difference in him. and brought out a young man that was hiding.

i believe you have to trust the person caring for your child. if not no, if you do, give a person a chance, to prove they are able, if they want to show you.

debra

Sending a child in a class and no training w/Autism

Hello parents and advocates, I am up a wall.

QUESTION TO YOU IS: Would you just send your child into this new

class without any training to the teacher and Para. of Autism and

in behaviors and the ABA?

The school does not have much to offer us. The class my son was in

is not appropriate and had to remove for particular reasons and even filed

a police report. Anyways, went and visited schools w/in the co. and just

nothing to offer us. But the class next to where he was is a possibility

because there are only 4 kids (to me pretty typical w/a quirck and no

behaviors), 1 Para., and 1 teacher. Now the teacher

has no experience in Autism except 1 ASD child in past and 1 child who

resouces in there part of the day but he is so high functioning and no

behaviors that I have seen. The District says just put him in there.

Would you send your child? I am home schooling right now.

In past

My son has had an ABA prog. w/a BCBA creating and analyzing and

training the personel for years. And his own Para. full day.

Yoda

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[Guest guest]

Debra, I know you must have as you seem to have a heart of gold, and also are soooooo eager to help our kiddos out.

Bless you...

e

To: AutismBehaviorProblems Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:26:25 PMSubject: Re: Sending a child in a class and no training w/Autism

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[Guest guest]

I would still have the child go to class and ask them to get signed

up for training. We as parents, grandparents, friends, etc. have no

training and do a great job. They still need to get on the ball and

get traning, however, would just see how it goes in the classroom.

>

> Hello parents and advocates, I am up a wall. 

> QUESTION TO YOU IS: Would you just send your child into this new

> class without any training to the teacher and Para. of Autism and

> in behaviors and the ABA? 

>  The school does not have much to offer us.  The class my son was in

> is not appropriate and had to remove for particular reasons and

even filed

> a police report.  Anyways, went and visited schools w/in the co.

and just

> nothing to offer us.  But the class next to where he was is a

possibility

> because there are only 4 kids (to me pretty typical w/a quirck and

no

> behaviors), 1 Para., and 1 teacher.   Now the teacher

> has no experience in Autism except 1 ASD child in past and 1 child

who

> resouces in there part of the day but he is so high functioning and

no

> behaviors that I have seen. The District says just put him in

there. 

> Would you send your child?      I am home schooling right now.

> In past

> My son has had an ABA prog. w/a BCBA creating and analyzing and

> training the personel for years.  And his own Para. full day.  

>  

> Yoda

>

[Guest guest]

> Hello parents and advocates, I am up a wall. 

> QUESTION TO YOU IS: Would you just send your child into this new

> class without any training to the teacher and Para. of Autism and

> in behaviors and the ABA? 

It would depend on the child and the teachers.

If the child needs special handling that an untrained teacher would

have difficulty providing, then no. Also, if the kid needs a bit of

accomodation that a teacher who's willing to listen could provide, then

I'd be trying to figure out if the teacher is willing to listen (maybe

ask if you can talk to the prospective teacher?).

Another thing to note is even if a teacher has training in autism, they

may not be any good at dealing with that child. I saw this really

clearly in counselors I had - I had some with no training in autism who

did quite well, and one with a lot of training in autism who spent her

entire time nagging me to stop stimming and trying to get my parents to

stop homeschooling me, while ignoring my real issues.

Ettina

[Guest guest]

HI Debra,

I am a paraprofessional too (right now i'm on maternity leave). for 10 years i worked in the preschool program which now my son attends. our district doesn't train it's paras either on handling ASD. i guess the district feels we should learn as we work. it's sad, b/c we paras keep asking for training on handling behaviors, etc.

Janice

ps i also live in NJ

To: AutismBehaviorProblems Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2008 8:07:37 PMSubject: Re: Sending a child in a class and no training w/Autism

i had no knowledge of asd till i was handed the responsabilitie of educating one.

i am an odd para as when i have a child, it is "my" child and i dig as deep into what ever issue they have and educate myself.

where I live para's are handed children, no education in any particular issue needed. sad but true.

i am in southern nj.

debra

Re: Sending a child in a class and no training w/Autism

i would reconvene a meeting with the CSE and insist that a psychologist or behavior specialist who has experience with ASD kids be hired to supervise your child's placement, train the staff during class time with your son and collaborate with the teacher and PARA. see if there are any parent advocate groups in your area to help you and if you can swing it, bring a lawyer to your meeting or at the least have a lawyer send them a letter addressing your requests. sometimes the threat of legal action makes them anxious enough to comply. good luck!!

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