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GFG: "Duckie" beautiful 11 yr old. Infant reflux until 14 mos, demanding & difficult. 5th grader Sept 2011. Swimmer, Dancer, Actress & Jr Girl Scout. Violist. Singer. Allergic personality. SPD. Carries an epipen. Asthma.
"Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives."
Scout, To Kill A Mockingbird
Tis true.
Regarding special ed kids and those that should have qualified for sp ed services, but didn't, many don't drop out -- they are pushed out.
It's a pay now or pay later situation. Society looses out on the gifts our kids could have used in the workplace or in jail. Either way, society looses.
gfg: 16 yrs, m, ADHD dx 2000; Anxiety; APD, SID, motor apraxia dxd Spring 2002; Recep/Expr Lang impairments resulting in Reading Comp Disorder dx 9/2003. PTSD; dx 12/2004. PDD-NOS; dx 2/2005. MDE's (5/2005) team dx: ADHD, Adj Disorder w/Mixed Disturbance of Emotions and Conduct (PTSD, anxiety), LD-NOS (multi lang disorders). Adderall XR.
Me: aka Alisha Leigh, member since 5/2001
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
This really goes along with the findings of the research paper Martie did here about four or five years ago. One of the biggest contributing factors on a gfg's success in the adult world was positive early intervention at school.
Sharon a.k.a. "the foolish optimist"Mod in General & Healthful Living
GFG: Son, 16, dx ADHD highly impulsive/combined in 5/02 and depression in 12/03 - 20 mg of vyvansel - undx'd anxiety and social issues - expert gamer, creative and funny, loves his family - great kid!
PC: Daughter 21 - loves and protects her brother, in local college and in her own place - a joy!
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-- Agatha Christie
Yes, it does.
And the adverse consequences and emotional trauma inflicted on the students and their families is not even factored in to the "economy" aspect to my knowledge.
gfg: 16 yrs, m, ADHD dx 2000; Anxiety; APD, SID, motor apraxia dxd Spring 2002; Recep/Expr Lang impairments resulting in Reading Comp Disorder dx 9/2003. PTSD; dx 12/2004. PDD-NOS; dx 2/2005. MDE's (5/2005) team dx: ADHD, Adj Disorder w/Mixed Disturbance of Emotions and Conduct (PTSD, anxiety), LD-NOS (multi lang disorders). Adderall XR.
Me: aka Alisha Leigh, member since 5/2001
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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