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<blockquote data-quote="Andrea Danielle" data-source="post: 15813" data-attributes="member: 2357"><p>Thanks SRL and MidWestmom,</p><p></p><p>I will definitely ask his Occupational Therapist (OT) to speak with the school, she doesn't work with the school now, she is part of the Tourettes Clinic where he goes. She is great though, I am hoping she will get involved at the school, we definitely need support. We are totally caught in the middle, the Tourettes Clinic staff and the Bipolar specialist are all on board but we are left to fend for ourselves it seems in dealing with the really rigid school program he is in.</p><p>I don't know if Land's End will be the answer for us, he only seems to want things that look really cool! Not that Land's end isn't cool but he is really fussy, he wants black clothing or camoflauge. I will check the Land's End catalogue and see if there is anything cool enough for my fussy son :hammer:</p><p></p><p>As for sending healthy snacks, I do this, I send fruit, cheese, crackers and he eats it but when there are cookies offered to the others then my snacks don't look so great. They have even offer candies and chocolates as rewards, he has come home with little bags of M&amp;M's that he devours before lunch :frown: I think I have complained adequately about this that it might have stopped for now.</p><p>I ended up calling the school last night and leaving a vm saying to go ahead and give him what the other kids are getting in the way of snacks, because what choice do I have? They are obviously not changing their ways, and if he is being deprived of it because his mom doesn't want him to have it, it ends up causing more frustration and stress in him. I did express my total confusion/dismay about why they are giving 5 year old sugar at 11am. But what the heck can I do?</p><p></p><p>Next Wednesday, husband and I are meeting with the directors of the program he is in to go through all of our issues and these are big ones to cover. We also need to find a way to work with them for the next 5 months, it is hard because they are so inflexible and no interest in adapting what they do to accomodate his needs and have no interest in the Ross Green approach. They are completely Behaviour Management minded and know nothing about Tourette's Syndrome, BiPolar (BP) or Sensory Integration Disorder (SID).</p><p></p><p>Andrea</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andrea Danielle, post: 15813, member: 2357"] Thanks SRL and MidWestmom, I will definitely ask his Occupational Therapist (OT) to speak with the school, she doesn't work with the school now, she is part of the Tourettes Clinic where he goes. She is great though, I am hoping she will get involved at the school, we definitely need support. We are totally caught in the middle, the Tourettes Clinic staff and the Bipolar specialist are all on board but we are left to fend for ourselves it seems in dealing with the really rigid school program he is in. I don't know if Land's End will be the answer for us, he only seems to want things that look really cool! Not that Land's end isn't cool but he is really fussy, he wants black clothing or camoflauge. I will check the Land's End catalogue and see if there is anything cool enough for my fussy son [img]:hammer:[/img] As for sending healthy snacks, I do this, I send fruit, cheese, crackers and he eats it but when there are cookies offered to the others then my snacks don't look so great. They have even offer candies and chocolates as rewards, he has come home with little bags of M&M's that he devours before lunch [img]:frown:[/img] I think I have complained adequately about this that it might have stopped for now. I ended up calling the school last night and leaving a vm saying to go ahead and give him what the other kids are getting in the way of snacks, because what choice do I have? They are obviously not changing their ways, and if he is being deprived of it because his mom doesn't want him to have it, it ends up causing more frustration and stress in him. I did express my total confusion/dismay about why they are giving 5 year old sugar at 11am. But what the heck can I do? Next Wednesday, husband and I are meeting with the directors of the program he is in to go through all of our issues and these are big ones to cover. We also need to find a way to work with them for the next 5 months, it is hard because they are so inflexible and no interest in adapting what they do to accomodate his needs and have no interest in the Ross Green approach. They are completely Behaviour Management minded and know nothing about Tourette's Syndrome, BiPolar (BP) or Sensory Integration Disorder (SID). Andrea [/QUOTE]
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