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School's asperger's assessment says no but psychiatrist's says yes?
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 522544" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I agree with MWM. At the last middle school IEP I went to with Wiz they pulled in their asperger's "expert". When I asked what training she had in aspergers to make her an expert, the entire table full of people tried to change the subject. I pushed until they answered - she took a class about various types of autism and learning disabilities in college, and has just graduated from college - this was her first year of teaching. ONE class, three credit hours, and she was an 'expert'! She knew almost NOTHING, had never heard of Tony Attwood, and pulled out a book called "The Everything Book of Aspergers" (part of a series of books including "The Everything Book of Christmas") and said that it was the "definitive" book on aspergers. I was HORRIFIED. This is pretty much a "dummies" book and is NOT in any way definitive. She claimed that Wiz did NOT have Aspergers because he made eye contact and when pushed would speak about subjects other than pokemon. Sure he would - when he knew that he owuld get something for participating. He got time out of class and he got candy and soda for talking to her. That was enough. But she tape recorded the discussion that was about "school subjects" and he discussed math as in how many pokemon were at the start of the movie and how many were left standing after the big battle. Gee, that's math and not talking about his obsessive interest? How? Even the others at the IEP table had to admit that it was NOT talking about anything other than pokemon and there was twenty min of this that this "expert" claimed was not about pokemon but it was all pokemon this that and the other. Shortly after he ended up in the psychiatric hospital and then I had them skip him a grade because he was NOT going back to a school that would not let me into the building with-o threatening to call the police to charge me with tresspassing even if I was there at a teacher's request. skipping a grade was one of the best things we did, and the jr high here was awesome with him. I would NOT trust a school evaluation for a disorder as complex as asperger's. They simply are not the specialists that you need. If school balks, get an advocate and a letter from the psychiatrist. They cannot legally win if they object to a psychiatrist evaluation - the psychiatrist's evaluation will ALWAYS top theirs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 522544, member: 1233"] I agree with MWM. At the last middle school IEP I went to with Wiz they pulled in their asperger's "expert". When I asked what training she had in aspergers to make her an expert, the entire table full of people tried to change the subject. I pushed until they answered - she took a class about various types of autism and learning disabilities in college, and has just graduated from college - this was her first year of teaching. ONE class, three credit hours, and she was an 'expert'! She knew almost NOTHING, had never heard of Tony Attwood, and pulled out a book called "The Everything Book of Aspergers" (part of a series of books including "The Everything Book of Christmas") and said that it was the "definitive" book on aspergers. I was HORRIFIED. This is pretty much a "dummies" book and is NOT in any way definitive. She claimed that Wiz did NOT have Aspergers because he made eye contact and when pushed would speak about subjects other than pokemon. Sure he would - when he knew that he owuld get something for participating. He got time out of class and he got candy and soda for talking to her. That was enough. But she tape recorded the discussion that was about "school subjects" and he discussed math as in how many pokemon were at the start of the movie and how many were left standing after the big battle. Gee, that's math and not talking about his obsessive interest? How? Even the others at the IEP table had to admit that it was NOT talking about anything other than pokemon and there was twenty min of this that this "expert" claimed was not about pokemon but it was all pokemon this that and the other. Shortly after he ended up in the psychiatric hospital and then I had them skip him a grade because he was NOT going back to a school that would not let me into the building with-o threatening to call the police to charge me with tresspassing even if I was there at a teacher's request. skipping a grade was one of the best things we did, and the jr high here was awesome with him. I would NOT trust a school evaluation for a disorder as complex as asperger's. They simply are not the specialists that you need. If school balks, get an advocate and a letter from the psychiatrist. They cannot legally win if they object to a psychiatrist evaluation - the psychiatrist's evaluation will ALWAYS top theirs. [/QUOTE]
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