I'm C, new to the group

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Hello, I am Carolyn, and new to this group. My son was screened by his school

as to be asperger's syndrome. He's in second grade, and only been in school

since december of 2009. He had gone to kindergarten for 3 months, then I took

him out to homeschool. Homeschooled him through the rest of kindergarten, all

of first grade, and part of second. Put him back in school due to family

dynamics are changing.

I go to school at least once a week because son has meltdowns. I bring him home

for lunch because he wasn't eating school lunch, and I concluded that was part

of the reasons for some of his meltdowns. I'm divorcing his father, and father

doesn't want to pay me support, but just don't know how I am supposed to work,

when I do go to work, I pray that son doesn't have any meltdowns.

been trying to look for nutrition for aspergers.

Anyways. Look forward to learning more about this.

[Guest guest]

Hi Carolyn,

The melt-downs will subside to be lesser, well they have for us. My son was just diagnosed at 10. I wish I could have found out earlier. I knew in preschool something was wrong. He would have meltdowns during any seperation from me, up until end of 2'nd grade, when I took him out to homeschool him. I was a public school teacher at the same school he was attending. He has been homeschooled for 3'rd and 4'th. At times, it was just plain exhausting, because I couldn't find any curriculum that would work, that it wasn't pulling teeth, or melt-down, or take all day long. However, I just recently found something that works for him. It's the most boring book you would think--two workbooks. Yet they only have 4-6 problems total per page, and the entire skill only is 3 to 4 pages, total. So in 1.5 hrs to 2 hours we are done for the entire day. It's awesome. What is really amazing, is that he is mastering an entire skill/benchmark in a day. We write down

the skill he learned, and what he learned, in a composition book (I write it down), then everyday we review the skills learned. It's awesome, he is learning more in this amount of time than an 8 hour day of pulling teeth! Of course he absolutely LOVES to read--so he gains alot of information reading).

He loves being home. Our psych is the one who says he needs to be in a social environment, because eventualy one day he will have to function with other people. I went and interviewed one private school today--and another one on Thursday. The school today was too low functioning for him, so Thursday is my hope for that one. We shall see. If not, I'll keep plugging away, and even homeschooling. Public school just didn't work for us--

When he gets to high school, if we are still homeschooling, I'll use a cyber school too.

Hugs,

Kristal

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From: geminiwoman0 <bizeemommie@...>Subject: ( ) I'm C, new to the group Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 2:22 AM

Hello, I am Carolyn, and new to this group. My son was screened by his school as to be asperger's syndrome. He's in second grade, and only been in school since december of 2009. He had gone to kindergarten for 3 months, then I took him out to homeschool. Homeschooled him through the rest of kindergarten, all of first grade, and part of second. Put him back in school due to family dynamics are changing.I go to school at least once a week because son has meltdowns. I bring him home for lunch because he wasn't eating school lunch, and I concluded that was part of the reasons for some of his meltdowns. I'm divorcing his father, and father doesn't want to pay me support, but just don't know how I am supposed to work, when I do go to work, I pray that son doesn't have any meltdowns.been trying to look for nutrition for aspergers.Anyways. Look forward to learning more about this.

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welcome, Carolyn

From: bizeemommie@...Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 06:22:21 +0000Subject: ( ) I'm C, new to the group

Hello, I am Carolyn, and new to this group. My son was screened by his school as to be asperger's syndrome. He's in second grade, and only been in school since december of 2009. He had gone to kindergarten for 3 months, then I took him out to homeschool. Homeschooled him through the rest of kindergarten, all of first grade, and part of second. Put him back in school due to family dynamics are changing.I go to school at least once a week because son has meltdowns. I bring him home for lunch because he wasn't eating school lunch, and I concluded that was part of the reasons for some of his meltdowns. I'm divorcing his father, and father doesn't want to pay me support, but just don't know how I am supposed to work, when I do go to work, I pray that son doesn't have any meltdowns.been trying to look for nutrition for aspergers.Anyways. Look forward to learning more about this.

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I hope they do subside as he gets use to school. My daughter on

the other hand only had after school meltdowns increase into

what could be called an obsessive rage directed at me. She

has a deficit in processing speed (can be detected on an IQ test)

yet she is above average in reasoning skills. She is like a

computer in overload mode. She has always had anxiety and when it peaks she has

OCD like symptoms. Zoloft has helped reduced the

anxiety. She also has to be in a less stimulating

school setting. Since she changed schools she is doing better

not great, still fragile but no meltdowns.

I too understand your struggle of how to work with a fragile

child. My daughter is often out sick up to 4 weeks in a school

year.

In our area there is a charter school that I considered.

It think my daughter would have done better there.

I also would consider having him have a gradual exposure to

school step at a time to see if the meltdowns can be

brought under control. My daughter started out going to

school 1 hr, 2 hrs eah step was added as long as she stayed calm

before and after school.

If your son is like my daughter he needs like an aide,

perhaps this can be taken into consideration in

your divorce but I understand it may not be

that easy.

If there is anything you can do to get an advocate in the

divorce for your son's well being that would be great.

Pam

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> Hello, I am Carolyn, and new to this group. My son was screened by his school

as to be asperger's syndrome. He's in second grade, and only been in school

since december of 2009. He had gone to kindergarten for 3 months, then I took

him out to homeschool. Homeschooled him through the rest of kindergarten, all

of first grade, and part of second. Put him back in school due to family

dynamics are changing.

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> I go to school at least once a week because son has meltdowns. I bring him

home for lunch because he wasn't eating school lunch, and I concluded that was

part of the reasons for some of his meltdowns. I'm divorcing his father, and

father doesn't want to pay me support, but just don't know how I am supposed to

work, when I do go to work, I pray that son doesn't have any meltdowns.

>

> been trying to look for nutrition for aspergers.

>

> Anyways. Look forward to learning more about this.

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