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<blockquote data-quote="--Eleanor--" data-source="post: 33258" data-attributes="member: 3620"><p>Hi all: </p><p></p><p>I just found this site and am somewhat selfishly reassured that I'm not the only parent dealing with certain types of kid problems day in and day out.</p><p></p><p>I'm from a family of hyperlexics (reading by about age 3 without being taught) and my difficult child is a hyperlexic almost-7-year old son with high functioning autism. He was diagnosed at age 2 and has been getting alot of services since then. He is extremely bright, can be utterly charming, and has a great, if really weird, sense of humor. So that's from the parent perspective. Here's the school's perspective: He is noisy, disruptive, given to tantruming whenever he doesn't get what he wants, and has recently developed a tendency to hit out at teachers and aides. Their idea of a solution--stick him into a self-contained classroom for kids with mental retardation despite the fact that his IQ is 111. Our response: Lawsuit under IDEA. We've recently settled the suit and got him what appears to be a really great inclusion program (specially designed for him--not a group thing) with staff that seem really great. But we're already getting reports of continuing behavior problems. I'm pretty worried...Are we going to have to end up home schooling him? Is he never going to be able to function in a classroom? Are we ever going to be able to spend money on anything other than speech therapy, occupational therapy and lawyer bills? </p><p></p><p>Anyway, that's where I am at the moment. Hope to get to know all of you here...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="--Eleanor--, post: 33258, member: 3620"] Hi all: I just found this site and am somewhat selfishly reassured that I'm not the only parent dealing with certain types of kid problems day in and day out. I'm from a family of hyperlexics (reading by about age 3 without being taught) and my difficult child is a hyperlexic almost-7-year old son with high functioning autism. He was diagnosed at age 2 and has been getting alot of services since then. He is extremely bright, can be utterly charming, and has a great, if really weird, sense of humor. So that's from the parent perspective. Here's the school's perspective: He is noisy, disruptive, given to tantruming whenever he doesn't get what he wants, and has recently developed a tendency to hit out at teachers and aides. Their idea of a solution--stick him into a self-contained classroom for kids with mental retardation despite the fact that his IQ is 111. Our response: Lawsuit under IDEA. We've recently settled the suit and got him what appears to be a really great inclusion program (specially designed for him--not a group thing) with staff that seem really great. But we're already getting reports of continuing behavior problems. I'm pretty worried...Are we going to have to end up home schooling him? Is he never going to be able to function in a classroom? Are we ever going to be able to spend money on anything other than speech therapy, occupational therapy and lawyer bills? Anyway, that's where I am at the moment. Hope to get to know all of you here... [/QUOTE]
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