3 thoughts on “Autism and Education – where does your child receive their education?”

1. First of all every child in America has a right to a free public education with an IEP and educational plan and staff trained and suited to his needs. Your school district is required to provide this either by suiting a program to his needs in your current school that encourages and promotes sucess in your childs endeavors instead of setting him up for failure( which is OBVIOUSLY what they are doing) their ” behavior plans” indicate a total lack of education in this disorder and it is an injustice to your child. Shame on them ! Back to my point- if they are not appropiately staffed or trained to school your child the district must then find another district close by that offers an appropiate program – they then must pay that district to accept your son into said program and provide trandportation to and from it. Your county must have a special needs advocacy office that will typically provide an attorney to inform school district superintendants what they are required to provide for your student- the advocacy agency should also be able to provide you with an educational advocate to attend IEP s and meetings with school staff with you and will strongly advocate for the particular services your child requires and a 1:1staff / child parapro may be needed to help initiate success in behavioral – social – &educational areas for your child- someone who is trained to enncourage success with appropriate methods and not punish your child for their disability..If your school district does not comply you have a hell of a lawsuit on your hands & beyond their lack of providing what is required of them by law – I believe you have an additional case of discrimination of your childs disability by school staff & principle and would pursue that avenue in a civil trial- I do not support being leticious but I abhor ignorance far more and sometimes people need it thrown in their face to see that their actions are unacceptable. The autism community in this nation is huge & outspoken . You will have no problems gathering support from many advocacy agencies around U.S. if you choose to pursue this- please share my letter with the principal of your establishment and my email address as I would be happy to speak on your childs behalf with this person that is clearly not suited for a career in the education of our youth as true educators will always count a childs failure to learn as their personal failure to provide the appropiate techniques to help that individual child learn , and will always search for ways to remedy the situation and help the child thrive. That is – in fact- their JOB! I can be reached at hollytokarczyk74@gmail.com

2. I was told that schools MUST  have a special education section. We were also told  by one school that if they were to provide that, it would bankrupt the school system…we appreciated that info and were able to find an area where there was a system already set up. Special needs teachers are wonderful, and understand my children, and actually want to help them  succeed. One child is main stream school in special ed and the other is in a charter school with special ed help.
   You can sue a school and require that they have  teachers available, but if it closes the school down , it does no one any good.

3. I had my son in typical and special ed classes. The school system did everything imaginable for us and loved him dearly. Problem being,  was the typical kids teasing and he was a monster. Violence everyday. He was 12 at this time. I thought it through and asked myself, how would it feel to know you were the dumbest kid in the school? To everyone’s dismay, I moved him to the MRDD school, where he was the smartest kid in the school. It took a year to turn around his aggression with a restraining  team, when needed. He became the morning announcer, played on sports teams and really shinned and became happy and proud of himself.