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<blockquote data-quote="whatamess" data-source="post: 322053" data-attributes="member: 7664"><p>I have to say I'm feeling very conflicted about alot of things to do with difficult child. He is turning 12 this week. Nine years since his diagnosis. We have tried so many therapies, so many strategies and many behaviors remain. At some point I either have to say this is part of who he is and accept it, or say the methods we tried didn't work but there might be other methods that do work and we should keep searching until he's 'fixed'. With these role-playing ideas, I just feel like saying *hello! we've been working on this for <u>years</u>! Don't you think we've pointed out his noises, etc?!! Like all of a sudden this new person is going to say, 'wow' you make weird noises and difficult child will be like 'really, ok, thanks for pointing that out, I'll stop now'*. I am also struggling because we just had an IEP and there are a ton of goals, which I'm happy about, but the teacher started talking about switching gears from trying to keep difficult child up with the curriculum (he's 3 years behind in math and reading, and can't spell or write beyond what a kindergartner can) to more functional skills. It is very hard to hear someone tell you to give up pushing forward with the regular curriculum and work on functionality. He's just turning 12, I feel like if I don't have expectations for him then no one will and it just seems so young to say- you won't go to college, but we can train you to do some (menial) work. It's so depressing, that's not what I want to envision for my son!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="whatamess, post: 322053, member: 7664"] I have to say I'm feeling very conflicted about alot of things to do with difficult child. He is turning 12 this week. Nine years since his diagnosis. We have tried so many therapies, so many strategies and many behaviors remain. At some point I either have to say this is part of who he is and accept it, or say the methods we tried didn't work but there might be other methods that do work and we should keep searching until he's 'fixed'. With these role-playing ideas, I just feel like saying *hello! we've been working on this for [U]years[/U]! Don't you think we've pointed out his noises, etc?!! Like all of a sudden this new person is going to say, 'wow' you make weird noises and difficult child will be like 'really, ok, thanks for pointing that out, I'll stop now'*. I am also struggling because we just had an IEP and there are a ton of goals, which I'm happy about, but the teacher started talking about switching gears from trying to keep difficult child up with the curriculum (he's 3 years behind in math and reading, and can't spell or write beyond what a kindergartner can) to more functional skills. It is very hard to hear someone tell you to give up pushing forward with the regular curriculum and work on functionality. He's just turning 12, I feel like if I don't have expectations for him then no one will and it just seems so young to say- you won't go to college, but we can train you to do some (menial) work. It's so depressing, that's not what I want to envision for my son! [/QUOTE]
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