someone else started the same thread at the same time you did. here is the link:
http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=132202
http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=132202
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I CHOSE to go through insurance to get it because
1) I had just pulled my kids from the district after ten years of carp including refusing IEPs that were put together for both of them
2) the day after I decided they would not go back the district was slapped with a class action lawsuit for dropping required services for special needs kiddos and not honouring section 54
( I never found out how it went but two months ago I met a lady whose child is still in the district and is severe and they have been to Court TWICE to make them follow through on the IEP)
3) I can't speak for your area but in my area you don't want the homeschoolers having to deal with the public school. It creates all kind of bad juju
some people have to deal with their districts because there isn't a choice and that is fine for them
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Just not this puppy.
I am so sorry for any confusion I caused you
1) I had just pulled my kids from the district after ten years of carp including refusing IEPs that were put together for both of them
2) the day after I decided they would not go back the district was slapped with a class action lawsuit for dropping required services for special needs kiddos and not honouring section 54
( I never found out how it went but two months ago I met a lady whose child is still in the district and is severe and they have been to Court TWICE to make them follow through on the IEP)
3) I can't speak for your area but in my area you don't want the homeschoolers having to deal with the public school. It creates all kind of bad juju
some people have to deal with their districts because there isn't a choice and that is fine for them
I am so sorry for any confusion I caused you
Hi!
I'm a Speech-Language Pathologist. I'm retired now in order to homeschool with my two kids. I worked for 12 years with kids - many of whom were on the autism spectrum. IMO the best life for these kids is the homeschooled life. The best! We worked with both homeschooled and public schooled kids with autism/Asperger's, and the homeschoolers were better off overall. I also worked in a fantastic public school classroom with 8 kids all on the autism spectrum. In 12 years, it was the only classroom of this nature I would agree to work in. Most of them are awful! I wouldn't send my dog to those classrooms.
I am on several homeschooling on-line lists, and know there are many other families who homeschool their kids who are on the spectrum. I have a nephew with Asperger's (12 y.o.), and his mom insists on keeping him in school to help him with his social skills. AAAACH! He's miserable in school, and now has a one to one aide. He's also in 4-H, and his mom told me recently, "You know, he doesn't really have any friends in school, but he's made a couple of really good friends in 4-H." Hmmmm...so he's in school for social reasons, but has no social life with anyone from school.
I encourage you to take on this homeschooling adventure. In school, your child will be labeled, and made to feel different and even stupid for being who he is. He will not gain any beneficial "social skills" there because the teachers/aides/therapists do not have the time, skills, nor inclination to help them with social skills. They do spend a lot of time training them to line up, and sit still in their chairs, and glue and paste things together, and use scissors, and throw a ball, and learn phonics and math facts. But social stuff? Not so much. (I'm really trying to encourage you not to buy into the "social skills" reason for sending him to school! I'm probably going overboard - huh? LOL!).
Laura
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I'm a Speech-Language Pathologist. I'm retired now in order to homeschool with my two kids. I worked for 12 years with kids - many of whom were on the autism spectrum. IMO the best life for these kids is the homeschooled life. The best! We worked with both homeschooled and public schooled kids with autism/Asperger's, and the homeschoolers were better off overall. I also worked in a fantastic public school classroom with 8 kids all on the autism spectrum. In 12 years, it was the only classroom of this nature I would agree to work in. Most of them are awful! I wouldn't send my dog to those classrooms.
I am on several homeschooling on-line lists, and know there are many other families who homeschool their kids who are on the spectrum. I have a nephew with Asperger's (12 y.o.), and his mom insists on keeping him in school to help him with his social skills. AAAACH! He's miserable in school, and now has a one to one aide. He's also in 4-H, and his mom told me recently, "You know, he doesn't really have any friends in school, but he's made a couple of really good friends in 4-H." Hmmmm...so he's in school for social reasons, but has no social life with anyone from school.
I encourage you to take on this homeschooling adventure. In school, your child will be labeled, and made to feel different and even stupid for being who he is. He will not gain any beneficial "social skills" there because the teachers/aides/therapists do not have the time, skills, nor inclination to help them with social skills. They do spend a lot of time training them to line up, and sit still in their chairs, and glue and paste things together, and use scissors, and throw a ball, and learn phonics and math facts. But social stuff? Not so much. (I'm really trying to encourage you not to buy into the "social skills" reason for sending him to school! I'm probably going overboard - huh? LOL!).
Laura
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