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Attachment therapy? What is it? Do all adopted kids need it?
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 401772" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I am not surprised that they are not telling you what training they have in this stuff. Our middle school tried to tell me they had an "Asperger's Specialist" on staff. When I FINALLY ogt her qualifications she had a degree in education (not sp ed, jsut reg ed and reg teaching certificate) and wasn't fully certified for secondary schools yet, but she did a college research paper on Asperger's for a psychiatric class (undergrad psychiatric class 1 level above intro to psychiatric) and she went to a conference on Aspergers two years before she graduated college. She had never read a book on Aspergers since the college paper (was surprised that I had 3 of them with me for the meeting) and didn't know who Tony Atwood is, or Temple Grandin either. Mostly she had a title so that she could help bully the parents into shutting up and going away and leaving the school alone. (The district sp ed supervisor's secretary told me this - I caught her on a day when she was fed up with the middle school and their sp ed shenanigans.)</p><p> </p><p>Have you posted about all of this on the sp ed forum to get them to help you figure out a plan of action? They will probably be a big help. Also keep asking what this person's training is as you can clearly tell that she doesn't know her ear from her dog when it comes to attachment therapy or to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)/Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 401772, member: 1233"] I am not surprised that they are not telling you what training they have in this stuff. Our middle school tried to tell me they had an "Asperger's Specialist" on staff. When I FINALLY ogt her qualifications she had a degree in education (not sp ed, jsut reg ed and reg teaching certificate) and wasn't fully certified for secondary schools yet, but she did a college research paper on Asperger's for a psychiatric class (undergrad psychiatric class 1 level above intro to psychiatric) and she went to a conference on Aspergers two years before she graduated college. She had never read a book on Aspergers since the college paper (was surprised that I had 3 of them with me for the meeting) and didn't know who Tony Atwood is, or Temple Grandin either. Mostly she had a title so that she could help bully the parents into shutting up and going away and leaving the school alone. (The district sp ed supervisor's secretary told me this - I caught her on a day when she was fed up with the middle school and their sp ed shenanigans.) Have you posted about all of this on the sp ed forum to get them to help you figure out a plan of action? They will probably be a big help. Also keep asking what this person's training is as you can clearly tell that she doesn't know her ear from her dog when it comes to attachment therapy or to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)/Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE). [/QUOTE]
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