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<blockquote data-quote="TheBoyHasArrived" data-source="post: 549743" data-attributes="member: 14829"><p>He was on risperdal in the orphanage, and we continued it during the initial transition. The psychiatric does not feel like we should medicate unless absolutely necessary as he has never had the opportunity to develop emotional regulation due to the massive amounts of medication he was on prior to adoption. She said that if we feel like he NEEDS it, then we'll try again. That's where I'm torn...he doesn't NEED it at home, but maybe at school?</p><p> </p><p> There's no alternative placements. He is actually much worse in the self-contained classroom than he is when he's pushed into regular education with an aide because the expectations are so low in self-contained. We actually do not want him in an alternative placement--he will have to live in society, so my thought is that giving him a more sheltered placement will just set him up to fail in the long run. He had a lot of time in an institutional setting, and we are trying to move away from that. </p><p></p><p> What we've found about the self-contained placements we've looked into (we moved to put him in this school so that he would be semi-included) is that they have almost zero expectations for him other than to not throw a tantrum. They couldn't care less if he learns positive behaviors, learns academic concepts or uses language to communicate--as long as he doesn't throw a tantrum, they are happy. </p><p></p><p> And, honestly, it's not overstimulation or crowds, etc., that set off his behavior--it's about 70% testing behavior/control issues and 25% impulse control, in my opinion. And maybe 5% anxiety. The major problem is that he does not self-regulate his emotions so his reactions to minor things are WAY off the charts. My thought was that maybe that's where medication *may* help. I'm really hoping that the behaviorist will be able to help get us on the right track.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheBoyHasArrived, post: 549743, member: 14829"] He was on risperdal in the orphanage, and we continued it during the initial transition. The psychiatric does not feel like we should medicate unless absolutely necessary as he has never had the opportunity to develop emotional regulation due to the massive amounts of medication he was on prior to adoption. She said that if we feel like he NEEDS it, then we'll try again. That's where I'm torn...he doesn't NEED it at home, but maybe at school? There's no alternative placements. He is actually much worse in the self-contained classroom than he is when he's pushed into regular education with an aide because the expectations are so low in self-contained. We actually do not want him in an alternative placement--he will have to live in society, so my thought is that giving him a more sheltered placement will just set him up to fail in the long run. He had a lot of time in an institutional setting, and we are trying to move away from that. What we've found about the self-contained placements we've looked into (we moved to put him in this school so that he would be semi-included) is that they have almost zero expectations for him other than to not throw a tantrum. They couldn't care less if he learns positive behaviors, learns academic concepts or uses language to communicate--as long as he doesn't throw a tantrum, they are happy. And, honestly, it's not overstimulation or crowds, etc., that set off his behavior--it's about 70% testing behavior/control issues and 25% impulse control, in my opinion. And maybe 5% anxiety. The major problem is that he does not self-regulate his emotions so his reactions to minor things are WAY off the charts. My thought was that maybe that's where medication *may* help. I'm really hoping that the behaviorist will be able to help get us on the right track. [/QUOTE]
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