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| Ignorance of others
Posted: 6/1/2008 3:11:44 PM | Teaching children with similiar case histories I can tell you that the children I see all have a lot of baggage. And it is all very different. My students have seen situiations which would upset most adults.
With that said some parents do not take the time to attend any of the meetings. In some cases I have become responsible for providing a back up meal as the parent consisently brings the child to school late and misses the free school meal. The point is not all parents participate in the educational process which means teachers are often running a classroom that is always ready to erupt. It is not easy. No books, no resources, just troubled kids. At this point in the year a student that is still getting removed from a classroon at this age has much work to do. Question is why it would take this long in a school year for the action to occur? | |
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| Ignorance of others
Posted: 6/1/2008 4:38:31 PM |
At this point in the year a student that is still getting removed from a classroon at this age has much work to do.
Climbsagain, as you know as an educator of special needs children, this time of the year can be difficult even for children without special needs. The excitement of the school year ending, the change of seasons, usually some special "end of the year" parties or events, all of these things can contribute to antsy kids and disruptive behavior. If we're talking about a kid with ASD, we may be talking about a kid with sensory integration issues. This time of year can be espeically difficult for kids with sensory integration dysfunction...changing from long sleeved shirts to short sleeved shirts, changing from wearing long pants to wearing shorts, the change in how things smell, perhaps a change in diet, as well as all the issues about how to respond in social situations, to know what is expected. Additionally, this child might not have a clue about "what happens next"....there's a change in his normal routine, there's a change in the structure of his day (in the structure of his life actually), he may feel anxious about all these changes and all these new things/new expectations, he's going to be going to a new class, he's going to have a new teacher, all kinds of things to worry about/obsess about....who knows? And yeah, maybe the teacher was having a bad day and had had it with this kid.
I think one thing we have to remember about all children, actually all people...sometimes it only takes 1 damaging incident, 1 disparaging remark, to make someone feel worthless and to destroy their self esteem, self respect and self worth...
some folks never recover. | |
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| Ignorance of others
Posted: 6/1/2008 4:52:41 PM | | Honestly, I think you would have to feel emotion the way I do to understand what it is like. You would have to understand what it feels like to be detached from everything and to rarely feel sympathy or empathy for others. Aspies tend to only feel empathy for things that they have experience first hand... like in my case have a strong response to marriages/relationships ending because my ex-husband left me back in 94. I also tend to respond sympatheticly to those with cancer because my mother has it, but other chronic illnesses, not as much. Once I finally lose my mother I'm sure I will have a greater sympathy for people that have lost their parents as well. The other day I almost broke down completely when someone was telling me how their best friend has cancer and their husband left them in the middle of it. I functioned all through my educational years with little difficulty as long as I was placed in classes that were advanced enough and held my interest. I never actually felt a need to be accepted by my schoolmates. Every person I talk to that also has this condition tells me they felt the same ways, I even lived with someone that had it. None of us actually care about social interaction and acceptance, I only learned I needed get it in order to keep a good job in my later years. In fact, most of us probably wish that all those people would just leave us alone and not touch us or get into our space. :) Dealing with large groups of people is emotionally draining for me... at the end of a day I can go home feeling very exhausted because of all the people I had to be around. I could imagine for a child that this could potentially cause behavioural problems simply because he's in sensory overload from all the people around him. For once in my life I'm thinking "maybe it was good thing I went to a small school." | |
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