STRESSEDTOMAX
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Hi All
I always say I'm going to be on here consistently, but it never seems to happen. difficult child was recently hospitalized due to out of control behaviors...again.... He is now home for about three weeks and the meltdowns have been less severe and less frequent, which I'm thankful for. School problems are still there, though. I hooked up with an Lawyer for Council for Children's Rights who has helped tremendously. The only reason I met her was she was the lawyer for another child's IEP meeting when she witnessed my son being put in handcuffs and thought it was so inappropriate that she saw my son and handed him her card. in my humble opinion, nothing less than Divine Intervention. We had an IEP meeting - he is now back to having an IEP and is in two resource classes. He refuses to go to his two inclusion classes, though, because he is afraid of some of the kids. So I take him in after his first class and that can't keep happening. Now I'm requesting another IEP meeting to try and get his primary category changed from OHI to Autism. Meanwhile, we are always walking on eggshells at home because I'm realizing that the next logical step is probably going to have to be residential for a period of time, which absolutely breaks my heart but he can't continue to go into the hospital. When he gets upset over the littlest thing or even something he perceives is happening its the same old pattern of screaming like he's being murdered, throwing things, putting holes in doors and walls. I'm feeling the weight of all of this today and I'm depressed. Thanks for being there...
I always say I'm going to be on here consistently, but it never seems to happen. difficult child was recently hospitalized due to out of control behaviors...again.... He is now home for about three weeks and the meltdowns have been less severe and less frequent, which I'm thankful for. School problems are still there, though. I hooked up with an Lawyer for Council for Children's Rights who has helped tremendously. The only reason I met her was she was the lawyer for another child's IEP meeting when she witnessed my son being put in handcuffs and thought it was so inappropriate that she saw my son and handed him her card. in my humble opinion, nothing less than Divine Intervention. We had an IEP meeting - he is now back to having an IEP and is in two resource classes. He refuses to go to his two inclusion classes, though, because he is afraid of some of the kids. So I take him in after his first class and that can't keep happening. Now I'm requesting another IEP meeting to try and get his primary category changed from OHI to Autism. Meanwhile, we are always walking on eggshells at home because I'm realizing that the next logical step is probably going to have to be residential for a period of time, which absolutely breaks my heart but he can't continue to go into the hospital. When he gets upset over the littlest thing or even something he perceives is happening its the same old pattern of screaming like he's being murdered, throwing things, putting holes in doors and walls. I'm feeling the weight of all of this today and I'm depressed. Thanks for being there...