Guest guest Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 Is it called 's law? Conni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 I love it when the principal or teachers etc. don't have any kids....and they have the nerve to say things when they have never experienced parenthood or dealing with a child with AS. Last year the Asst. Principal didn't know my son has AS and didn't even know what it was. OMG! I have read so much that I know more than them. Also, there are state laws and federal laws ....the school usually doesn't want you to know about them ...but if you do ...watch out ....they may not be happy but they will have to do what is right. That is why it is good to go to meetings with an Advocate. When I walk in with mine...they are all on their toes....I love it. Jan Janice Rushen "I will try to be open to all avenues of wisdom and hope" From: Patti Journey <pjpoo78363@...>Subject: Re: ( ) Just Anger and Mad Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 7:16 PM It's the law, I just let them know that I knew it was a law. There is a paper back book that you can get from Austin, for free, it tells you about all the laws, I wish I could think of the name, can anyone else help me out here? No one at the school knew anything about the laws or acted like they did, but I helped them to know all about them. And I had a principle that didn't like what I was doing, but it wasn't her child, it was mine, in fact she didn't have any children and really couldn't relate at all. She even had the nerve to tell me that I took my son to to many doctors, this was before we knew he had Aspergers, we knew it was more than ADD and couldn't give up. You may have to educate them all, good luck. It wasn't easy, and I had a many of days of coming home crying and feeling very depressed about it all, but if I didn't help my son, well no one else was going to or even cared. pj From: r_woman2 <me2ruth (DOT) com> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 12:12:40 PMSubject: Re: ( ) Just Anger and Mad >> I live in Texas, here the schools have to pay for the teachers to goto Asperger/Autism seminors, etc. to help them to understand and teachour children, they don't offer that there? You need to ask them aboutthis, I was the first parent to get this started when my child was inelementary school.� Patti, what line of reasoning exactly did you use to get this started?This is probably what my son needs the most. He is in 8th grade andI know by the questions I get from his teachers that they don't knowhow to work with him. He has a 504 and is starting a school Autismevaluation soon (for a possible IEP). But I was told by a SPEDdirector that he could get teacher training with even just a 504, butit is up to the building principal. And they, of course, don't wantto do it just for one kid (or so they say). I'm in Texas too, sowhatever you did would definitely apply. Thanks!Ruth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 > > It's the law, I just let them know that I knew it was a law.� There is a paper back book that you can get from Austin, for free, it tells you about all the laws, I wish I could think of the name, can anyone else help me out here?� Well, even just knowing there is something definite there is helpful, so thanks, Patti. If nobody else knows what it is, I'll start going through IDEA and the TEA site more carefully and hopefully I'll find it. Sounds like your experience was pretty similar to ours. I wish I could be more encouraging to the newcomers, but it is usually quite a battle. I just can't believe it is finally coming together for us. And I have to say that, at least with our school district, is was more a matter of ignorance and wanting to try to solve things at the lowest level possible like any good business more than active hostility or uncaring. Not that some teachers weren't very hostile, but I mean the administration that were actually making the decisions. I hope that is a little helpful to people to know it is something you can work through. It really is a matter of keeping on them, making sure they know things aren't working, continually educating, etc. One thing we have going for us was that one of the SPED director agreed with me 2 years ago that the teacher training was definitely doable, although then she said it was up to the building principal. I think the administrators at the school need the training too, so they can recognize the symptoms too and make appropriate executive decisions. Quess I should be saying this to the SPED director... Ruth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 > > I love it when the principal or teachers etc. don't have any kids....and they have the nerve to say things when they have never experienced parenthood or dealing with a child with AS. Yes, one of my son's worst years was when not a single one of all 4 of his core teachers had kids (6th grade). They tried to say he was ED. Luckily the principal was not so quick to judge. They took care of it pretty quickly with a behavioral consultation. But they were still just awful all year; I was continually sending e-mails to the principal and a couple of times to a SPED director. That's why I'm not so hard on principals as I don't know how we would have survived that year without that one. She had her hands full with just the crew of teachers she had, let alone the kids' problems. Ruth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 Hi , we had put in my son's 504 Plan that I would scribe for him when needed (at home for work). I just cannot understand that teacher giving your son F's even if it wasn't in a plan! Glad he has a scribe now. Amazingly, some of his teachers were able to read his writing (I couldn't read much unless I knew topic, then might could decipher some of it). Anyway, the occupational therapy really helped with this so hope that's an option for your son to get it. We did get his privately but really it'd have been some of the same people doing it (school contracted with some of them anyway). I recall the OT said similar about my son, something about the connection between brain and fingers/writing. Glad your " fit " accomplished some good, do keep us updated!! > > the way the dr. discribed the disfunction was there is a disconnection between my son's brain and the fingers. He can write , you just can't read it. He forms his p, q, and 9's are all odd looking. He writes soooo slowly that homework takes hours. As for math the writing again interfers with the way he writes his numbers. As for the computer again the disconnection interfers with his typing. He is in typing class with computers and of course the teacher is complaining about not doing assignments, told him to be patient with Greg. We tried the scribing at home with me doing his writing. His teacher gave him all F's because mom wrote for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 It's called IDEA. pj From: "clbrew311@..." <clbrew311@...> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 7:05:12 PMSubject: Re: ( ) Just Anger and Mad Is it called 's law?Conni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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