Post by Claire on May 26, 2008 9:22:20 GMT -5
Thank you so much for all your wonderful help and links. We are meeting with Adam's school tomorrow and I will post after our meeting. But the decision has been made for us. I have read and looked into it until my eyes can't see anymore 
And we will try the home schooling at least for a year and take it from there.
We are not making this decision out of anger because of the pool incident, we are making this decision from a lot of things that have happened over the last 5 years with Adam in the Educational system, that has made not only us so frustrated but more important Adam also.
We are form Canada, so the educational system may be different then some of you when it comes to rules and regualtions, but school is school, it is suppose to be about your child (any child DS or not) learning and progressing which is something Adam cannot do with this kind of attitude from the school.
I already have 2 retired EA's who are willing to help one day a week each and willing to help prepare Adam's curriculum. One of the Teacher (Retired SERT) helping is retired from the school that Adam first started where the abuse took place, but she was not involved with the issues of abuse. She has already given me boxes of all kind of litterature and work that she prepared for her work at the school before she retired and is willing to walk me through what the next step is and explain to me how to teach Adam certain things.
I find that I am getting quite lot of support with this. I have also called CTRC (which is the agency where Adam gets his OT and speech Pysioand music therapy at the school and the programs all continue at home if he is homeschooled until he turns 18, same amount of hours, nothing changes they just come to my house instead of the school.
We also have a funding system here in Canada called SSAH (special, services at home) and they have granted me money to help pay for extra help for Adam's home schooling , like an EA for 1 or 2 days a week as I know I will probably need a break once in a while.
Another thing we are going to discuss with the school tomorrow is maybe having Adam go to school a few hours a week but only for gym, music, art and so on as I think Adam needs to learn to like school again and have fun and be a kid.
For the social aspect I have registered him for Bowling again next year, swimming lessons,not private but with other children, and some of the parents here that home school (only 5 families)( 18 children no children with special needs) but are willing to let us join their socializing group once a week.
So things are looking up, and I honestly think we are making the right decision, if it works for Adam I will keep homeschooling, if not he can always return to school the next year if we think that he is less frustrated and is ready to go back to the school system.
I will let you know tomorrow how things went.
And we will try the home schooling at least for a year and take it from there. We are not making this decision out of anger because of the pool incident, we are making this decision from a lot of things that have happened over the last 5 years with Adam in the Educational system, that has made not only us so frustrated but more important Adam also.
We are form Canada, so the educational system may be different then some of you when it comes to rules and regualtions, but school is school, it is suppose to be about your child (any child DS or not) learning and progressing which is something Adam cannot do with this kind of attitude from the school.
I already have 2 retired EA's who are willing to help one day a week each and willing to help prepare Adam's curriculum. One of the Teacher (Retired SERT) helping is retired from the school that Adam first started where the abuse took place, but she was not involved with the issues of abuse. She has already given me boxes of all kind of litterature and work that she prepared for her work at the school before she retired and is willing to walk me through what the next step is and explain to me how to teach Adam certain things.
I find that I am getting quite lot of support with this. I have also called CTRC (which is the agency where Adam gets his OT and speech Pysioand music therapy at the school and the programs all continue at home if he is homeschooled until he turns 18, same amount of hours, nothing changes they just come to my house instead of the school.
We also have a funding system here in Canada called SSAH (special, services at home) and they have granted me money to help pay for extra help for Adam's home schooling , like an EA for 1 or 2 days a week as I know I will probably need a break once in a while.
Another thing we are going to discuss with the school tomorrow is maybe having Adam go to school a few hours a week but only for gym, music, art and so on as I think Adam needs to learn to like school again and have fun and be a kid.
For the social aspect I have registered him for Bowling again next year, swimming lessons,not private but with other children, and some of the parents here that home school (only 5 families)( 18 children no children with special needs) but are willing to let us join their socializing group once a week.
So things are looking up, and I honestly think we are making the right decision, if it works for Adam I will keep homeschooling, if not he can always return to school the next year if we think that he is less frustrated and is ready to go back to the school system.
I will let you know tomorrow how things went.
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Susan, Proud mom of Michael (32), Justin (25) Emily (22ds), and Jordan (20).
