Re: Affording Biomed/another view

[Guest guest]

I'm a mom who is doing biomed with 3 of my children for various reasons not

autism and it has improved their quality of life immensely.

I am also a special ed teacher and I thought that I might comment from that

point of view. As a teacher we would like all of our students to grow up to be

independent people who contribute to society but that is not always possible due

to many factors and disabilities. One thing that we can work on is to help our

students learn skills that will enable them to be less of a burden on those that

will be taking care of them when they get older. This can include things like

feeding themselves or other self help skills. It can also include social

behaviors or learning how to control anger and other maladaptive behaviors.

As much as we would like to think we will be around forever - we won't and our

children who cannot live on their own will be taken care of by others. If there

is anything that can be done (even a little improvement) it will improve their

quality of life forever and make people want to be around them. So even if

biomed is not going to " cure " every child, it may help them be able to be more

for lack of a better word - fun to be around when they are older.

Patty