My son is 8 his moderately verbal and came home with two bruises on his arm I straight off jumped to conclusion but after calming down I want some advice they don’t look like thumbprints or scratches when I ask he doesn’t say anything and seems fine and happy am I just overthinking it?little backstory I do suffer from severe anxiety so I don’t know if it’s just me overthinking it thank you in advance

I am living in Malaysia
The definition of homeschool here is a center setup with small number of students. (Homeschool here may have different definition to most other countries, where it means strictly doing studies in own home).

My son is 7 years old, high functioning autism. Currently placed in nursery (preschool daycare)
- Childhood Appraxia of speech (now can say one word or regular word)
- Still doesn't know how to talk or communicate with peers
- not a picky eater.
- doesn't have any… read more

My son is on the spectrum & is lashing out the second he walks into his classroom. (Still learning about meltdowns, never sure if one is or not!) Let me start by saying that there have been a few changes since we are in the summer program. Different teacher, assistants, classroom, school & routine going into the building (me bringing him to class vs. him lining up with other kids to go in together with teacher). His school is under construction & on a positive note, they did bring all of the… read more

What do you do when you can't get the regular ed teachers to 'get it'? I *am* a public school teacher, and I find myself appalled at the lack of interest or empathy from the core subject teachers. There's a real horror story here, but the bottom line is the teachers really appear to have little interest in even attempting to understand or learn even general information about ASD, much less the specifics regarding my child. My approaches have ranged from 'teacher to teacher' to 'mad as hell… read more

I am a school counselor and since I have a son with PDD-NOS, I have a real passion for helping those kids. I speak to teachers all the time, but from my own experience. I would like input from other parents as to what you wish the teachers knew that would make a big difference in your child's life.

We are in San Diego, Poway school district. In a class of 10 kids, there's one teacher & 5 aides. Lot of IEP goals are possible to work upon provided my kid is pushed little bit more. 60% of the goals are not even 50% successful. So What's the use of so much staff around in the class? Lot of these things he is able to do at in-home ABA class. We have questions in our mind about motivation, scenario planning (to work on specific task), instruction delivery to my kid.

Does anyone has knowledge… read more

ok I have a question regarding schools and special ed teachers. In my son's district there are7 elementary schools each one has at least 1 special ed teacher and one speech therapist. However his school has NO special Ed teacher listed on the directory?? Also the person who the school told me is their OT is only listed as a "teacher" in the directory and I've be told that she covers 5 elementary schools and one other school, yet I don't see her name listed ANYWHERE on any of the other… read more

My son is refusing to learn in class and is interfering with the learning process of others. I am considering homeschooling or online schooling with my son. My son does participate in social groups outside of school so that element will not be completely missed.

I am looking for specialists of Spatial-visual learners with learning disabilities for my son, age 10, has PDD and speech delay.

Although he was brilliant at academically until his 1st grade, at the 2nd grade, his reading comprehension ability was fading out and recently he has math problem, too.

For 2 years I was looking for the ways how to teach him, because he has his own learning style, but I could not find. I tried in many visual ways, of course I bought an iPad.

Since I knew he was a… read more