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<blockquote data-quote="Supermama" data-source="post: 504724" data-attributes="member: 13740"><p>Thank you all so much for your suggestions and wisdom! Yes, he does have an IEP, he is in "behavioral Special Education classes" where the setting is 9 children to unfortunately two teachers-1 who is in her late 50's and 1 who is in her late 60s, (now, I'm not saying that older people shouldn't be teachers, I'm a teacher myself, but they tend to be set in their ways and somewhat antiquated in their approaches). Tired of feeling bullied at the school, I contacted the Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities. They set me up with a parent mentor who attended a meeting with me. In response, the school brought in the district safety director. The mentor suggested to them that they should supply my son with a personal assistant. ( Little background info- my son is a "runner", it's in his IEP, when he feels upset- he runs.) He's been through 3 in two months. When the first one left, I asked why. They said "we don't know. we called her and she said no one told her to come in." ??? But....ummmm....she had been coming in everyday for two weeks! They gave him another. The first day she was there, my daughter (who goes to the same school) told me that she saw the woman pick up my son and slam him onto a bench, hurting him. I was furious! ( Little background info- I work as a preschool teacher in a daycare and I also drive the school agers to and from school on occasion.) I called one of the teachers over to my bus and told her that I wanted to speak to his assistant immediately. She walked to the door and told the woman that I wanted to see her, but she refused to come out. They (the school) requested that I have a formal meeting the next day and that I give them "warning" before I come in. Long story short, they denied it happened that way. They claimed that he was combative so she had to restrain him. Turns out that they "restain" him quite often. I asked my son what his assistant does all day and he replied " when she's not texting, she's helping other children with their work. She goes to lunch for a loooooong time then comes back at the end of the day." Sadly, :grins:, she is not there anymore. by the way, the first assistant suddenly showed up to work as the secretary's fill-in a few days later. Now he has a male assistant. I thought-oh, good. Maybe he will be a positive male role model plus he will be able to handle my son's "combative" days. I asked my son how he liked him the first day. " Mommy, that guy's a runner! he chased me every time! And, oh yeah, he does that thing my teacher does." "What thing?" " You know, when she twists my arms and holds them way back behind me. I don't like that." So now i'm off to see the school again and have been advised that I may want to call Children Services. </p><p>****Also, during my research I found quite a few medical websites that say sleep disorders are often misdiagnosed as ADHD. My child sleeps 16 hours a day. 16. That means he is only awake 8 hours and it is not consecutive. I believe he has a sleep disorder (maybe hypersomnia or narcolepsy?) and being unable to sleep makes him cranky, then irritable, then aggressive, then violent. I am still awaiting results from sleep study and EEG. ( He had a three-day EEG last month.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Supermama, post: 504724, member: 13740"] Thank you all so much for your suggestions and wisdom! Yes, he does have an IEP, he is in "behavioral Special Education classes" where the setting is 9 children to unfortunately two teachers-1 who is in her late 50's and 1 who is in her late 60s, (now, I'm not saying that older people shouldn't be teachers, I'm a teacher myself, but they tend to be set in their ways and somewhat antiquated in their approaches). Tired of feeling bullied at the school, I contacted the Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities. They set me up with a parent mentor who attended a meeting with me. In response, the school brought in the district safety director. The mentor suggested to them that they should supply my son with a personal assistant. ( Little background info- my son is a "runner", it's in his IEP, when he feels upset- he runs.) He's been through 3 in two months. When the first one left, I asked why. They said "we don't know. we called her and she said no one told her to come in." ??? But....ummmm....she had been coming in everyday for two weeks! They gave him another. The first day she was there, my daughter (who goes to the same school) told me that she saw the woman pick up my son and slam him onto a bench, hurting him. I was furious! ( Little background info- I work as a preschool teacher in a daycare and I also drive the school agers to and from school on occasion.) I called one of the teachers over to my bus and told her that I wanted to speak to his assistant immediately. She walked to the door and told the woman that I wanted to see her, but she refused to come out. They (the school) requested that I have a formal meeting the next day and that I give them "warning" before I come in. Long story short, they denied it happened that way. They claimed that he was combative so she had to restrain him. Turns out that they "restain" him quite often. I asked my son what his assistant does all day and he replied " when she's not texting, she's helping other children with their work. She goes to lunch for a loooooong time then comes back at the end of the day." Sadly, :grins:, she is not there anymore. by the way, the first assistant suddenly showed up to work as the secretary's fill-in a few days later. Now he has a male assistant. I thought-oh, good. Maybe he will be a positive male role model plus he will be able to handle my son's "combative" days. I asked my son how he liked him the first day. " Mommy, that guy's a runner! he chased me every time! And, oh yeah, he does that thing my teacher does." "What thing?" " You know, when she twists my arms and holds them way back behind me. I don't like that." So now i'm off to see the school again and have been advised that I may want to call Children Services. ****Also, during my research I found quite a few medical websites that say sleep disorders are often misdiagnosed as ADHD. My child sleeps 16 hours a day. 16. That means he is only awake 8 hours and it is not consecutive. I believe he has a sleep disorder (maybe hypersomnia or narcolepsy?) and being unable to sleep makes him cranky, then irritable, then aggressive, then violent. I am still awaiting results from sleep study and EEG. ( He had a three-day EEG last month.) [/QUOTE]
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