tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447392662850613354.post1136719988913153829..comments2024-02-25T10:24:30.868-05:00Comments on Special needs disability parenting BLOOM: Locking kids up, tying them to chairsBLOOM - Parenting Kids With Disabilitieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901482901008135659noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447392662850613354.post-9586521985627449242009-09-10T10:39:33.104-04:002009-09-10T10:39:33.104-04:00Hi Molly: Project Eye to Eye (http://www.projectey...Hi Molly: Project Eye to Eye (http://www.projecteyetoeye.org/home.html) sounds like an amazing mentoring program. I think mentors are so important to kids with any kind of disability -- being able to see/get to know someone further down the road who has walked in your shoes and truly understands.<br /><br />We have a mentorship program here at Bloorview. It really benefits the mentors and mentees.<br /><br />I'm very glad you took the time to share your viewpoint. Hope to hear from you again! LouiseBLOOM - Parenting Kids With Disabilitieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901482901008135659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447392662850613354.post-56067637370230478772009-09-08T15:10:00.866-04:002009-09-08T15:10:00.866-04:00This is making me want to cry. As a 21 year old wi...This is making me want to cry. As a 21 year old with ADHD, I can't imagine how those children must have felt. To me, it sends a clear message. Who you are is not ok. <br /><br />I worked with a program called Project Eye to Eye. It matches ADHD/LD College students with ADHD/LD elementary school kids. It's a mentoring program. As a coordinator I had to attend a weekend long retreat, run by the founder of the program, a guy with ADHD himself. <br /><br />The freedom we had that weekend was unparalleled. I sat bouncing a racketball as we talked. We got up and moved around, took breaks.. we were just allowed to be ourselves. <br /><br />Imagine if we were allowed to be who we are. How different education would be!Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15881590483174001768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447392662850613354.post-9002058229587272542009-08-19T12:15:26.256-04:002009-08-19T12:15:26.256-04:00Dear first poster with the 12-year-old boy:
Thank...Dear first poster with the 12-year-old boy:<br /><br />Thank you for sharing this heartbreaking story. When we have children who are non-verbal, we have to be so vigilant to ensure that our children are not treated in inappropriate ways. I can certainly relate to the feeling of shock at realizing your child was being disciplined inappropriately, no one had told you, and that he had had no way of communicating this to you. I am a firm believer in "showing up" at unexpected times at your child's school so that you have a good sense as to what happens when you're not there. Thanks again for sharing! Hope we get to hear more about your son. LouiseBLOOM - Parenting Kids With Disabilitieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901482901008135659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447392662850613354.post-23480411161212106272009-08-16T22:23:20.724-04:002009-08-16T22:23:20.724-04:00Well I am starting a new school in September, so f...Well I am starting a new school in September, so far I was so happy in the preeschool at Centenial. They were wonderfull, but my fear how is going to be the new one?, as a parent of a child that can not talk is always worry is something happen to them and no way to tell us, I just pray tha my son got a wonderfull teacher as he had at Centenial.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447392662850613354.post-39622736649040078112009-08-14T22:47:12.648-04:002009-08-14T22:47:12.648-04:00I'm so glad we're homeschooling.
And this...I'm so glad we're homeschooling.<br /><br />And this sort of thing was a big deciding factor in our decision to homeschool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447392662850613354.post-87916957286177805102009-08-14T21:47:16.313-04:002009-08-14T21:47:16.313-04:00This is indeed a sad situation, I had not realized...This is indeed a sad situation, I had not realized how rampant this behaviour is. As a parent of a 12 year-old boy (non-verbal, global developmental delays) we experienced a similar situation in his senior kindergarten year. His junior year was spectacular with a caring teacher and E.A. that modified the program for him. His senior year, due to cutbacks he ended up in a class with a teacher that could not handle his special needs. We found out "by accident" one day that part of this teacher's methods included sending my son to the principal's office for timeouts. He has no behaviours whatsoever, just non-verbal and slower than others. Our discovery happened when we went to pick him up for an appointment and found him sobbing in the office, he can't talk and so could never tell us. That teacher was retiring at the end of the school year so had no movitation to do anything differently. The next year he did not continue in that school.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com