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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 706334" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>There is a category in Special Education, called Other, health impaired. You see chronic illness is a qualifying diagnosis for special education. With that you would not necessarily go the behavioral route, but you could. Or there is the ED category, emotionally disturbed. On the basis of what you describe, he would likely qualify here.</p><p></p><p>I believe that at school intervention could help. He could even potentially be transferred to a non-public school placement, with a behavioral or therapeutic component. Some kids go to residential treatment settings through an IEP. If it were me I would get the school involved. By law he does have to go to school, no?</p><p></p><p>Clearly school is not serving him. By their own admission.</p><p></p><p>At 16, I think, at the latest 17, he is eligible for Job Corps, the federal program/trade school which is residential, and free. All meals, well supervised. Good trades, including careers like nursing, etc. I would check their website.</p><p></p><p>I would give him the choice: either you straighten up here, now, or you become emancipated. What you do, your choice. If he refuses to go or to accept emancipation, I would consider removing everything that is an amenity rather than necessity from his environment. I might feed him, give him a bed, and that is it. No TV. No phone. No computer. No WiFi. A curfew. I would call the cops every single time there is any acting out.</p><p></p><p>To continue down this path, is the worse thing, for him. Let alone you. Have you considered Al Anon?</p><p></p><p>Take care. Keep posting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 706334, member: 18958"] There is a category in Special Education, called Other, health impaired. You see chronic illness is a qualifying diagnosis for special education. With that you would not necessarily go the behavioral route, but you could. Or there is the ED category, emotionally disturbed. On the basis of what you describe, he would likely qualify here. I believe that at school intervention could help. He could even potentially be transferred to a non-public school placement, with a behavioral or therapeutic component. Some kids go to residential treatment settings through an IEP. If it were me I would get the school involved. By law he does have to go to school, no? Clearly school is not serving him. By their own admission. At 16, I think, at the latest 17, he is eligible for Job Corps, the federal program/trade school which is residential, and free. All meals, well supervised. Good trades, including careers like nursing, etc. I would check their website. I would give him the choice: either you straighten up here, now, or you become emancipated. What you do, your choice. If he refuses to go or to accept emancipation, I would consider removing everything that is an amenity rather than necessity from his environment. I might feed him, give him a bed, and that is it. No TV. No phone. No computer. No WiFi. A curfew. I would call the cops every single time there is any acting out. To continue down this path, is the worse thing, for him. Let alone you. Have you considered Al Anon? Take care. Keep posting. [/QUOTE]
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