My son
is 9 years old. Since his birth I knew he was special. Over the course of his
years he has accumulated LOTS of diagnosis. ADHD, Bi-polar, ODD, Separation
anxiety, Sensory integration, and Asperger's syndrome. Cody has had quite
an adventure in his short life.
Since he was about 15 months old he had been in therapy 4 days a week to help with his diagnosis and sensory problems. He has been medicated since the age of 3 years old. That was a very hard decision to make. Therapy was just not helping. I needed to keep Cody and the rest of the family safe. Cody could be quite violent and have very extreme temper tantrums. Cody has been to numerous specialist and we get the same diagnosis and answers. At some point we want to be able take him off medication.
Fast forward to present time more history to come......
Three years ago we moved into a new school district. I should have know the minute I tried to sign the kids up for school that their were going to be BIG challenges ahead of us. Like I previously stated my son had been to a hand full of specialist. Which means I have LOTS of paperwork and documentation. I also had all of his records from his previous school which he excelled at in regular education classes. I tried to hand the principle and special ed coordinator at the new school his information, they refused to take it. "I was told let's just wait and see how he does!"
Needless to say my son started school and had lots of problems occur immediately. He was failing quickly and getting into lots of trouble. He even started getting suspended at the age of 8. His actions all had to do with his disabilities. My husband and I began to ask for the school to open an IEP (individual education plan) again for Cody. We never got anywhere, now we find out that the school had 7 days to respond to the request. This went on for the entire school year trying to fight for him to get him help. More suspensions occurred. It seemed like the goal was never to help Cody it was just to move forward and ignore the problem. My child was threatened to be expelled from school. We had been in close contact with his Dr, he suggested we put Cody in the day program at the hospital so he didn't get expelled.
We finally at the end of April got a meeting for his IEP... Let the games begin!
Since he was about 15 months old he had been in therapy 4 days a week to help with his diagnosis and sensory problems. He has been medicated since the age of 3 years old. That was a very hard decision to make. Therapy was just not helping. I needed to keep Cody and the rest of the family safe. Cody could be quite violent and have very extreme temper tantrums. Cody has been to numerous specialist and we get the same diagnosis and answers. At some point we want to be able take him off medication.
Fast forward to present time more history to come......
Three years ago we moved into a new school district. I should have know the minute I tried to sign the kids up for school that their were going to be BIG challenges ahead of us. Like I previously stated my son had been to a hand full of specialist. Which means I have LOTS of paperwork and documentation. I also had all of his records from his previous school which he excelled at in regular education classes. I tried to hand the principle and special ed coordinator at the new school his information, they refused to take it. "I was told let's just wait and see how he does!"
Needless to say my son started school and had lots of problems occur immediately. He was failing quickly and getting into lots of trouble. He even started getting suspended at the age of 8. His actions all had to do with his disabilities. My husband and I began to ask for the school to open an IEP (individual education plan) again for Cody. We never got anywhere, now we find out that the school had 7 days to respond to the request. This went on for the entire school year trying to fight for him to get him help. More suspensions occurred. It seemed like the goal was never to help Cody it was just to move forward and ignore the problem. My child was threatened to be expelled from school. We had been in close contact with his Dr, he suggested we put Cody in the day program at the hospital so he didn't get expelled.
We finally at the end of April got a meeting for his IEP... Let the games begin!
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