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Friday, November 7, 2008

Gabe is being removed from school!

Today was the last straw....I get there and the teacher is in a meeting, the kids are wild and non of the 2 subs know what they are doing! Another autistic child had to use the toilet, he was holding himself, it was very obvious. The subs didn't even notice, I stepped in and asked him if he needed to potty, and then led him to the potty. The teachers were all focused on the normal kids, they didn't see Gabe come into the room at all......I got his back pack up, him to the potty, the other kid to the potty....made him sit and write his name, and then made him check in....we were settled with toys when they saw he was there.
This is not ok, they had no idea what to do with my child, I am not ok with this at all. I had to step in to help with the other ASD child when he ran from the room, I then calmed him down. The stroller he was push was hit by an NT child and the wheel broke off...this caused him to break down as he thought he busted the wheel. The teachers kept telling him he was "ok, come back and play" I finally said to him.....(his name) did not break stroller, its ok. He stopped crying, repeated what I said, I confirmed this and off he went, the teachers didn't understand his worry was that HE broke it, not that it was broke.
The normal teacher comes in about then, tells the subs that in 5 min its circle time, and that (other little boy) and Gabe could do whatever during this time.....I do not agree with this.
So in short I have ordered Gabe's homeschooling supplies, its not fair to leave him somewhere where the people cannot understand him. I don't always understand him either, but I am willing to take the time, they just act like he is a waste of their time! I am not sure if the subs or the teacher were required to take any classes on how to deal with ASD kids, if they have not they should...and these kids need smaller classes, more one on one time.....its 18 kids to 2 teachers today, 3 of the kids are ASD. I can barely handle one ASD kid somedays....I think there should be extras there for the ASD kids.
I understand that they want to treat Gabe as "normal" as they can, but the truth is that he is not normal and by icing that fact over they are not doing him any long term favors!

for those of you that don't know ASD means Autism Spectrum Disorder
NT means Neurologically Typical

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