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later I am headed to nap time also.


Fuzzy

 

Top of the morning to you fellas!!!!

 

Ugh. I just woke up and I feel like I've been hit by a car.



And I have been hit by a car before, so I know what I'm talking about.

 

We had and still have the same concerns with Kirsten being out of the mainstream classroom. However, her behaviors were isolating her to the point that it wasn't working. Yes, try to keep Jenna in mainstream as much as possible.

From the teacher hat: Yes, having an assistant assigned to a student that works with that student helps. For some reason, I was thinking social worker (elementary school guidance counselor) or classroom aide and not a one-on-one assistant in the original post. Kirsten has never had an individual aide, so I don't know from a parent viewpoint how that works. However, I have had some kids with autism that had the aide that sat with them all day long. I have also had students where in some classes there was an assistant but not others (depending on when aides were available).

From the parent hat: From my experiences when a number of aides are working with a student, they often don't know the student any better than the teacher and the aides are more likely to trigger the problems. How long has Jenna's assistant worked with her? Does she know Jenna's triggers and how to work with Jenna?

Teacher mode: Is the assistant just there for physical support or is she supposed to step in an assist with these kind of issues?

Perhaps, it would be a good idea to have some kind of conversation with the assistant as well. Yes, I realize that your ex was trying to have conversations that have been shut down by the teacher. That just doesn't add up.

Yup... same here.. I was crossing a road with a bunch of students on a trip and some idiot shot through the red light and then tried to swerve between the kids that started running and those that got deer in the headlight looks. Thankfully, none of them got hit; however, I still have some lingering issues that pop up now and then. And of course, the driver drove off...

Oh yeah, and I got hit a few times by drivers when on a bike. But those are different stories.

So what's your story?

OK... so now that I am on the rant mode for special needs students in the classroom (BTW: for some reason, I get most of the mainstreamed autistic and emotional students assigned to my science class; however, my experience is at a middle school level where I only have the child for a 43 minute class. I just don't understand elementary school teachers that can't learn their students' triggers and signals when they are with them most of the day and only have 30 kids to learn)

I need to deal with some frustrations. Maybe take a second walk, maybe reboot this computer to Windows so I can blow up robots and spaceships...

 

OK... one last thought before I go away for a while...

 

that's the key...not enough parental involvement.
I truly believe many of the "special needs" kids' only special need is more parental involvement, both at home and in the school, instead of viewing it as a daycare environment that you can't be involved in.
Hey, it's called PUBLIC SCHOOL* folks, and it's YOUR child ("folks" and "your" in a rhetorical sense, not directed at anyone in particular).
(*I say "public", but I really have a slightly different view....)
With more parental involvement, the lower kids would do better - it is those lower-achieving students that have by and large had the least amount of parental involvement afterall - and the truly special needs kids will have more specialized attention.
I do believe inclusion is the right thing, they're going to have to learn and grow in interaction, but some one-on-one time is key, too.

Yes, social worker/assistant/specialist/etc. is beneficial, if they are diligent to they're job. It's very easy for them to lose focus, but they are definitely a valuable asset.

 

They have free public wifi at the lodge now! woohoo. I might check back in later.

 

[slash]you dog-gone better![/slash]

errr, what I meant to say was:

Aye! Ye scurvy dog, ye better be sailin' the world wide web and makin' port at The Shavin' Den, now that ye be havin' access to a web-cruisin' vessel, ye got no excuses, unless ye be wantin' ta be keel-hauled

 

sol92258,

Spatula?

 

don't you know, all the cool kids live in Spatulas.....

just being random, but now I'm off to change my location for the day, being September 19th and all...

 

Ah, ITLAPD*

*International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

 

Aye!

 

Avast! The Bama game be startin', gotta save me bandwidth for the broadcast!


WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP!!!!

He was clearly throwing the ball, it wasn't a fumble, damh blind referee...may the fleas a million sea-dogs infest your crotch!

 

Just played with myself for a while.























































Cards, that is. Solitaire.

 

Argh! It do be ye 19th o septebmer ya know. I miss when ITLAPD feel during state testing...

Make yer marrrrrghs heavy and darrrrrghk or ye walk the plank ye scurvy dogs, and ye better be using the pencils of 2!

 

For Talk Like a Pirate Day:

http://www.telltalegames.com/playlikeapirate

 

Hi Everybody! I mean Argh!

 

Argh! Dr. Nick!

 

Avast! It be Doctor Nick! Arr!