My son is 8 years old and has autism. He is enrolled in the public school
system in Camden County. He will scream "no" or "no work" and he has also ran
out of the classroom on a few occasions. The school pscyhologist wrote a draft
behavior intervention plan and sent it home for me to review. She said that he
does these things to avoid completing work and wrote to use a visual schedule,
timer, offer choices (all things the teacher is supposed to be doing now). The
reinforcers were teacher 1:1, conferencing and ignoring the behavior with
consequences of time-out and physical restraint. Why would she write to use
physical restraint? What are my rights as a parent in this situation? I do not
agree with this plan. Camden County does not have a behavior analyst, but is
the school psychologist qualified to write a behavior plan for my son? Would I
be able to ask for another evaluation by someone privately? Who would you
suggest? Please give me your opinions. Thank you in advance!