At it with the school again

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Got a phone call from 14yo Asperger son's social skills/study strategies teacher

this am. Says our son is misplaced, doesn't belong in special ed. Giving my

husband this scare tactic that our son will receive a special ed diploma from

being in this class.

I shot her an e-mail back confirming that our son is in the right place, she

just is not used to seeing such high functioning autistics. I told her she may

have to use totally different techniques with our son than she has ever used

before. I told her about how we have an autism person in the special ed

department set up to be her " go to " for times like this and I would find out who

it was and get back with her.

I assured her this happens every year as it takes time to get to know our son's

challenges and I didn't mean to be critical. I told her she needs to maybe look

at our son's paperwork a little closer; he is definitely not on modified

curriculum, has verbal IQ in gifted range and is taking Pre-AP. I copied the

SPED director I talk to, a couple of people on the autism team, the school

diagnostician.

Has anybody else been through this? Any tips?

We do go through this every year, but I didn't expect it after the school autism

evaluation and the IEP--at least not so fast and so bad. I'm once again coming

to the conclusion that we will be battling whether our son's disabilities are

real or not until the day he graduates. This is driving me semi-nuts never

being able to relax and just live. The minute we get some program or facet of

his program " working " someone questions it or refuses to go along. After 14

years of this, I am exhausted.