Post by katiekat on Nov 17, 2008 0:29:14 GMT -5
Wasn't sure where to put this.
This weekend my husband did some major cleaning out of our bedroom closet, mainly all the paperwork he had saved over the years. While doing so he found a large folder of papers regarding Sean that he had completely forgotten that he had. These papers were from the time he was about 20 months til he was 35 months before I knew them. There were a lot of reports from daycare centers of why they were asking Sean to leave. There were statements about how he refused to interact with other kids except to hit them, refused to sit in a seat ever even at lunch where he instead walked around the table and stole everyone else's food. He would not participate in any group activities and at 23 months he would repeatedly run across the room and then slam himself into the wall. Most daycare centers said that they did not feel they had staff that could handle him and it would be best if he went somewhere else. They all also suggested a psychological eval. One center had Early Inervention step in and he was evaluated. Everything was on target for his age except sensory things. It said he needed a lot of sensory input. They were instructed to do things like bear hugs, have him squeeze playdoh and squishy balls and spin him in a chair for several seconds each way. These all are the things we did with the kids when I worked in the summer program at the pre school for autistic kids.His behavior also sounds a lot like the kids that were in that class. There were tons of reports on his behavior and all the problems his mother, father, and school staff were having with him. It was amazing to me to read because the majority of these things are still present today. Then at 35 months it said "today was my last visit with Sean since next month is his birthday." And that was it. He had all these problems but was now too old for Early Intervention so I guess it was just dropped and let go. I wish I had these things earlier, I wonder if they would have been helpful in any way.
This weekend my husband did some major cleaning out of our bedroom closet, mainly all the paperwork he had saved over the years. While doing so he found a large folder of papers regarding Sean that he had completely forgotten that he had. These papers were from the time he was about 20 months til he was 35 months before I knew them. There were a lot of reports from daycare centers of why they were asking Sean to leave. There were statements about how he refused to interact with other kids except to hit them, refused to sit in a seat ever even at lunch where he instead walked around the table and stole everyone else's food. He would not participate in any group activities and at 23 months he would repeatedly run across the room and then slam himself into the wall. Most daycare centers said that they did not feel they had staff that could handle him and it would be best if he went somewhere else. They all also suggested a psychological eval. One center had Early Inervention step in and he was evaluated. Everything was on target for his age except sensory things. It said he needed a lot of sensory input. They were instructed to do things like bear hugs, have him squeeze playdoh and squishy balls and spin him in a chair for several seconds each way. These all are the things we did with the kids when I worked in the summer program at the pre school for autistic kids.His behavior also sounds a lot like the kids that were in that class. There were tons of reports on his behavior and all the problems his mother, father, and school staff were having with him. It was amazing to me to read because the majority of these things are still present today. Then at 35 months it said "today was my last visit with Sean since next month is his birthday." And that was it. He had all these problems but was now too old for Early Intervention so I guess it was just dropped and let go. I wish I had these things earlier, I wonder if they would have been helpful in any way.