Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Internet Search
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
Growing up
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="keista" data-source="post: 431549" data-attributes="member: 11965"><p>I largely agree with you on that. Generally the label is useful not when things are going well, but when things start going wrong. It is ENTIRELY possible that with your support alone, your son can get through school without teachers knowing he has a label. But, what happens if he can't? What if he starts getting up and walking around because "he has to" What if he starts acting out because teacher does XYZ but if teacher just did ZYX everything would be fine? Don't advertise the label, but be prepared to pull it out and start educating others if problems do start.</p><p></p><p>My son is in High School now, and if you walked into some of his classes, you would be unable to pick him out. Others, he sticks out like a sore thumb - pacing, stimming, back to the whole class facing the corner (his choice) - because there is something about the subject matter, the student make up, decorations in the classroom, etc that just "unnerve" him. If he did not have his label or accommodations, he would be failing and having serious behavior problems. I have been told many times that my son was the first diagnosed Aspie some teachers had. Once having him in their class they thought back to other similar acting students and were sad because, in hindsight, they "knew" that these others also had Asperger's but the struggled and had such difficulties because no one had labeled them. At the time, they figured the kids just weren't "trying hard enough"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="keista, post: 431549, member: 11965"] I largely agree with you on that. Generally the label is useful not when things are going well, but when things start going wrong. It is ENTIRELY possible that with your support alone, your son can get through school without teachers knowing he has a label. But, what happens if he can't? What if he starts getting up and walking around because "he has to" What if he starts acting out because teacher does XYZ but if teacher just did ZYX everything would be fine? Don't advertise the label, but be prepared to pull it out and start educating others if problems do start. My son is in High School now, and if you walked into some of his classes, you would be unable to pick him out. Others, he sticks out like a sore thumb - pacing, stimming, back to the whole class facing the corner (his choice) - because there is something about the subject matter, the student make up, decorations in the classroom, etc that just "unnerve" him. If he did not have his label or accommodations, he would be failing and having serious behavior problems. I have been told many times that my son was the first diagnosed Aspie some teachers had. Once having him in their class they thought back to other similar acting students and were sad because, in hindsight, they "knew" that these others also had Asperger's but the struggled and had such difficulties because no one had labeled them. At the time, they figured the kids just weren't "trying hard enough" [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
Growing up
Top