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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 314874" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>When I read your description of his behavior from your other thread (below), personally I think it's pretty unrealistic for the school district to have a regular or Special Education classroom suitable for him when he is this unstable and potentially dangerous to himself and other students. The schools are within their rights to remove a student in such situations but generally when they do they offer alternatives such as homebound instruction or a therapeutic setting. Did you voluntarily withdraw him?</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>It sounds like you've worked with a lot of professionals to try and help him but it is imperative that your son be stabilized to at least some degree for him to function in a school setting. I noticed that you felt your team was worthless, the hospital was a nightmare hell-hole so you didn't want to go that route, and that you wanted to avoid restrictive settings such as hospitalizations and Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s. If you want my opinion, as unstable as he's been for such lengthy time, a longer term hospital stay or Residential Treatment Center (RTC) would be worth looking into. The medication reactions that you describedcould be monitored closely by staff, behavioral programs are in place to help kids like him, reevaluations could be scheduled, and a plan to transition him back to home and school once he's stabilized could be put into place. You sound opposed to a more restrictive environment, but since he hasn't functioned well in all of these environments with lesser restrictions, <strong>maybe that's exactly what he does need</strong>. Most parents are horrified at the thought of longer term treatment but often it's the parent that is more traumatized than the child. They often respond very well to the secure and predictable environment a therapeutic setting provides.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Sending him back to a school setting--even one that is more suitable to his needs--sounds like a recipe for disaster if he's not stabilized first. And if he is more stable, some of the previous settings might wind up working for him.</p><p> </p><p>I do agree that you will need to find an advocate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 314874, member: 701"] When I read your description of his behavior from your other thread (below), personally I think it's pretty unrealistic for the school district to have a regular or Special Education classroom suitable for him when he is this unstable and potentially dangerous to himself and other students. The schools are within their rights to remove a student in such situations but generally when they do they offer alternatives such as homebound instruction or a therapeutic setting. Did you voluntarily withdraw him? It sounds like you've worked with a lot of professionals to try and help him but it is imperative that your son be stabilized to at least some degree for him to function in a school setting. I noticed that you felt your team was worthless, the hospital was a nightmare hell-hole so you didn't want to go that route, and that you wanted to avoid restrictive settings such as hospitalizations and Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s. If you want my opinion, as unstable as he's been for such lengthy time, a longer term hospital stay or Residential Treatment Center (RTC) would be worth looking into. The medication reactions that you describedcould be monitored closely by staff, behavioral programs are in place to help kids like him, reevaluations could be scheduled, and a plan to transition him back to home and school once he's stabilized could be put into place. You sound opposed to a more restrictive environment, but since he hasn't functioned well in all of these environments with lesser restrictions, [B]maybe that's exactly what he does need[/B]. Most parents are horrified at the thought of longer term treatment but often it's the parent that is more traumatized than the child. They often respond very well to the secure and predictable environment a therapeutic setting provides. Sending him back to a school setting--even one that is more suitable to his needs--sounds like a recipe for disaster if he's not stabilized first. And if he is more stable, some of the previous settings might wind up working for him. I do agree that you will need to find an advocate. [/QUOTE]
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