Reply to Did your school treat DC differently with a diagnosis?

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Did your school treat DC differently with a diagnosis?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]DS is 4 and all year all the teachers at his preschool have been telling me how sweet, kind, etc. he is.  I always used to find one of them talking with him when I would go to pick him up.  They never raised any concerns about him being aggressive with other kids or them.  He's very verbal, pretty good with self-care skills, just lacks social skills with other kids and is stuck on his own interests sometimes.  About a month ago we told the school that DS had received an ASD diagnosis.  Since then, I've been getting emails from the teachers, I was asked to come in to talk about his behavior, and I just got pulled aside again today.  This has never happened in the 8 months before this.  They're saying now that he started hitting a teacher.  I have no idea what is going on because nothing has changed in our lives in the past month or at school that I'm aware of that would provoke a major behavioral issue.  I'm not discounting the possibility that he's acting out in some way and we're on the waitlist for ABA.  In the meantime, I've tried to gently suggest to them that when he's overwhelmed it's not a good time to "talk" to him because that just agitates him more if you say things like "look at me" when he's overstimulated already.   I don't know if they're overreacting somehow now that he has a label or if I'm overly sensitive, but it just seems so strange that since we told them about the diagnosis, they're suddenly wanting to tell me every little thing he does.  Part of I think what's upsetting me is that he isn't generally an aggressive kid and when I volunteer I see other kids hitting/kicking/etc. so I wonder if they're parents are getting these emails and getting called in.  The year is almost out so I'm not going to raise a big issue or anything but I kind of regret telling them - it could be coincidence I guess but it really seemed to coincide with a total change in their attitude towards DS and us.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics