Hi April...

Thank you for your response to my email you always talk so much sense and I
appreciate your questions as they are so relevant...The FBA you speak of sounds
similar to the Journal we now part take in between the teachers and ourselves of
everything Nathan does at school and at home, which has helped a lot!

You mentioned five disorders of the autistic spectrum? I don't know anything
about autism a part from the obvious traits that everyone knows about, you will
have to tell me more about that April please when you have time x

I don't know what grade means April sorry lol but I can tell you Nathan is now
in year 3 (the year he makes his 1st Holy Communion)he has 3 more years in
primary school than at 11 yrs he will then go to secondary/high school

Nathan did have extra support (a lady used to watch him at play/lunch times) up
until last year when the school claimed that they thought he didn't need it any
more which Paul and I disagreed with at the time but the community paediatrician
said she would like Nathan to have this support re established plus within the
class room also which I think can only benefit Nathan teachers and all other
kids in his class

Thanks again April for your supporting words it helps so much I will keep you
updated

Blessings to you and your family

Sandy xxx




--- In WSSA@yahoogroups.com, April Hooper <ahooburg79@...> wrote:
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> Hey Sandy! Sorry things are going a little rough right now. I have been there
so many times with Devon it is not funny. We keep a daily log of his behavior at
school, called a FBA...if you would like more information, ask... Anyways
about the autistic diagnosis...schools get more help and can have different
guide lines if there is an autistic diagnosis. Although they will get the same
supports if the diagnosis is one of the autism spectrum disorders (five
disorders). Devon falls under the PDD-NOS (one of the autism spectrum
disorders) and health impaired category for special education qualification.
> Is Nathan being mainstreamed (in an inclusive setting)? What grade? Does he
have a support aid all day, or does he need one?
> Sorry, I guess I am asking more questions than helping...
> Devon is in first grade, and this is his fifth year of public school (three
years pre-k, then K). Hope to hear from you soon!
> April
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> --- On Sat, 3/21/09, Sandy <znandra40@...> wrote:
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> From: Sandy <znandra40@...>
> Subject: [WSSA] What should we do???
> To: WSSA@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 10:20 AM
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> I couple of weeks ago we received a phone call from Nathans school reporting
to us that something serious had happened in school involving Nathan! As you can
imagine we rushed to the school were we were told had `attacked a little girl in
his class! I was filled with horror at the mere thought of it, luckily the
little girl wasn't hurt thank god, but she was upset and crying! so we took him
home there and then…after sitting him down and taking to him it turns out that
he attacked her because she was just sitting in his `chair'…no one at that
point had realized that he had focused so much on his chair (Nathan has many
autistic traits)
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> The following day we had a meeting with his teacher and the special needs
teacher etc they reported that even if they move anything around in his class
room it upsets and unsettles him for a few days. To cut a long story short the
school is pushing us to get some sort of diagnosis for autism or aspersers in
relation to Nathans behaviour .
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> A week later we had an appointment with community paediatrician and she gave
us 2 phone numbers to ring even though people who get these numbers usually have
a diagnosis (autistic nurse who can put us in touch with various services that
can help with this behaviour) now Iv had these numbers for 2 days and I still
haven't rang them yet… why? probably because I am frightened of being rejected
because Nathan hasn't a diagnosis for autism they may not help us and if they
don't…well I just don't know what we will do? ….I'm in such a confused state
I didn't know how to react I didn't know what to say to Nathan I even didn't
know how to punish him as he does not fully understand what he actually did! I
think I need help and some advise…if it was you what would you do in this
situation?
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> Sandy xxx
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