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[quote=Anonymous]This is a family that could afford to hire the best advocate in the area to get the right services on their son's IEP, yet as far as we know they didn't go that route. Was the issue perhaps that the school recommended s more therapeutic environment?

Just because the parents said it was Asperger's doesn't make it so. Have we seen a report from a reputable doctor? If so HOW OLD was the report. If he was diagnosed with Aspergers at 8 or 9 or something, I question it.

Also, at this point confidentiality goes out the window since he's dead. Why haven't we heard what treatments he was getting and what meds he was taken. There are reports that he was taking meds.

A few things make we really wonder about whether the parents were in denial despite trying to do what they thought would help:

a.) Mom taught him how to shoot and kept guns in house

b.) As a child they used to leave him with a babysitter who had no SN training and it sounds like he had risky behavior back then. They could have afforded the extra to get somebody well trained.

c.) Mom was trying to get him into college and she wanted him to live independently while attending. She only planned to live NEAR him.

I know their life must have been hell seeing their beloved little boy with all these struggles. I clearly see this was a loving family that kept their boys out of any divorce drama and they worked to keep things amicable. This i so admirable! I only wonder about these things because we need to figure out what any misteps were or what was wrong with services available in an effort to help prevent this. Yes, of course we need gun control. This issue is multi-facetted.[/quote]

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