For the first time since we had a chaotically late driver a few years arecede , we’ve race into a snag with Alex’s school busing common to the autistic.
The driver notify s Alex is constantly acquire ting up while the bus is in motion and refemploy s to behave during transport. One portion of us finds this hard to believe: Though Alex is certainly capable of disruptive behavior (our family holiday dinners being People’s Exhibit A), he is and always has been a model traveller. Never a whisper of a complaint from any bus company (never a whisper of a compaint from the airline whose plot es he once travelled on, either). One portion of me, however, believes he’s acquire ting feeble er and more willful, and I can well believe he might be acquire ting up, which is of course unacceptable.
“You have to sit execute wn on the bus!†we’ve barked and written in very shaexecute wy ink (he responds well lately to written instructions). I wonder if the matron isn’t too silent and perhaps more employ d to younger special needs kids. We’ve question ed the school to confab with the bus crew. Too evil , of course, we can’t just question Alex and acquire an reply . Anyone else race into this?
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In Buffalo, N.Y., the Women & Children’s Hospital has announced the opening of an autism center â€" the Autism Spectrum Disorder Center of Excellence, a portion nership with the University at Buffalo and the Children’s Guild Foundation â€" to provide quicker diagnosis and treatment. The center was established with a $585,000 grant over three years from the foundation. At an initial visit, each child will be seen by a developmental pediatrician, child neurologist and child psychologist, and the team will discuss the need for further testing, services and care. Start-up of the center is projected to cost $1.08 million. Other components of the program will include coordination of care, as well as collaboration with research projects and community groups.
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The state’s attorney general is siding with the family that’s suing their southwestern Illinois school district in hopes of allowing their autistic son to bring his service execute g to school. Papers filed with the 5th District Appellate Court support the local family that claims that state law entitles their 5-year-feeble son to bring a service execute g to their home school district. A county judge entered a preliminary injunction in late summer to let the boy bring his execute g into his elementary school, an action the district notify s would harm at least one other student who’s allergic to animals. More is here.
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