The parent survey I conducted months ago about parents reporting results of alternative treatments including gluten free / casein free diet and other alternatives are included in this paper. The paper is attached below. There are numerous studies cited within the paper that you can refer to and locate for yourself if this topic is of interest to you. I do hope that children with autism are treated more holistically in their medical care.
This semester I was assigned to a private school to work one-on-one with a student that was previously part- time in the public school system. The private school is attempting to provide for the student's needs but it has not been working out so well. As it is the students first year 100% attending the private school, there are expected kinks to be worked out. Part of me wants to leave this post off the blog because it's very personal to me and I am still in the mix of it, but the other part of me wants to share with any parents out there that may think the public school is failing their child and think the grass is greener on the private school side. So, to compromise, I will not share any information about either the school, or obviously the student.
What I do want to share with parents is that if your district and school are even just decent at caring for your child's needs there is a whole slew of practices, laws, forms, and collaboration that they are using and following that private schools are not used to. A parent might take for granted IEP meetings, the SPED teacher helping the general education teacher serve their child or even a simple thing as which assignments will the child have to fully complete versus only odds. Not every private school may struggle as badly as the one I am at, but until the SPED department (if you're lucky enough to have an actual teacher there) fine tunes the school's program, all these facets will be something you will only wish for again. Public schools may be overworked and the SPED teachers have too many students on their caseload to make as meaningful difference as they would like to, but there is a working chain of command the parents, general ed teachers, and paraprofessionals know and can use. I'd just like to leave this post with: Be grateful for what you have. If you are a parent that is not quite happy with the services your child is receiving, figure out how you can help. |
AuthorSpecial Education major in a university teaching program. Substitute teacher, previous homeschool mom, wife. Archives
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