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[quote=Anonymous]Well as you say the solution is not to turn the Autism program into another dumping ground, but that's what's going to happen. Gatekeeping is needed when there are finite resources and the program needs to serve the most neediest kids. The solution would be to give the same support and resources to other ALO programs, but it seems like they would rather every program be watered down. It's odd that their solution to something they see as inequitable, as people seem to be jealous of what Autism has, is to dilute it and drag it down to how other programs struggle.

I finally got to watch the latest budget meeting and the gaslighting from Dr. Cage was insulting. They claim that because more teacher and paraeducator positions are being added to the Autism Program that this means the Autism Program is expanding, not being gutted. Of course more positions are added every year because classrooms for Autism are opened every year to deal with the ever growing autism population. The issue is that there will be no dedicated supervisor and therefore the oversight of these programs will be gone. The specialists still have their positions for now but their jobs are likely going to be very different next year under one central special ed supervisor. She also claimed that the psychologists will now be centralized and get the right kind of supervision under the department of psych services. All psychologists, no matter what department they're in, already get evaluated by the psych supervisors and attend their meetings so it's disingenuous to say they've essentially been acting rogue with supervisors who don't know what they do. It's a blatant lie. They want to just have whatever building psychologist serve all programs in their building versus having psychologists dedicated to any program. It's a huge loss of expertise and will be impossible for dozens of building psychologists who will be less focused on their special programs to collaborate with Autism specialists and understand the unique needs and structure of the program. [/quote]

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