Regular Ed teacher....

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Regular Ed teacher....
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Tue, 09-12-2006 - 10:42am

Well,

-Paula

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Tue, 09-12-2006 - 11:21am

We had the same thing at the begining of the yr., pretty much every yr. "Kyle needs red pens". "Kyle needs xyz" I write back: Kyle has everything on his school supply list. His pens are in his pencil bag. That alone, now that I think of it, was probably the problem. Why whould Kyle look for pens in a pencil bag??? LOL

Hang in there. Sorry the aide is being useless. I hope it gets better.

Samantha

Samantha
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Registered: 06-09-2005
Wed, 09-13-2006 - 11:17am

Yes, I can relate also.

Ds is also in 1st, mainstreamed, also shares an aide (with 1 student, ds only has the aide part time). He is generally not a behavior problem, and can be quite charming with adults. But this can hide the skills he lacks, like executive function and organization. I see this as becoming more of a problem as he gets older.

Right now he has a confusing array of folders to cart back and forth to school, for reg ed subjects as well as communication notebooks for speech and sped. I do my best at home, but I could use a little help at school, someone to remind him to check the folders for completed work each day, or make sure he brings them home, get the comm notebooks updated by the teachers, that sort of stuff. It doesn't seem like they (aide and teacher)see this as being a problem related to the asperger's, which I think it is. sigh

I also wanted to say that I don't know how much reg ed teachers understand about AS or autism. I'm not sure if it is realistic to expect them to. I know they're supposed to read the IEP, but now that think about, the IEP's I've read are so crytic and the format so weird, I have to read it 3 or 4 times before I get anything out of it, and it's about my kid! Better stop, I headed off on a tangent..

Kate