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MrKnott
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| I was in various spec ed settings, resource room kind of thing mostly, back in the late 70s and early 80s. Nobody in there was like me. Most had behavior problems. These kids couldn't understand what I was doing there. I did a lot of their homework; yes, I was the proverbial "fastest kid in the slow group." These thugs protected me, and some were actually my friends; I didn't rob houses with them, but I drank a lot with them starting at age 13. Something kept me away from drugs, thank the Lord. Several of these guys were dead or in prison before age 30. As for school work and life skills, spec.ed did very little for me. I hope things are different now, but I doubt it. |
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LolaGranola
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Location: 1994
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| Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 10:30 am Post subject: |
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I just got my IEP on Thursday. It was really hard, sitting there and listening to people talk about all your differences. I had to leave after the meeting and cried all the way home.
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roadGames
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Joined: Oct 19, 2007
Posts: 184
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| Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I was in sped from grade 7-12. I harbor nothing but resentment towards those that placed me in the program. I suppose, technically, it was right to put me in sped because I have an IQ of around 92 and strong ADHD, but this has never stopped me from doing anything (I graduate college this summer, not that it really means anything anymore). |
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Landon
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Joined: May 23, 2009
Age: 15
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I was in the "resource" class in elementary school. That means that I went to a regular classroom (with an aide) about half the time, and the special ed room about half the time.
In middle school I was in all regular classes, except instead of Art, I did some extra work in English with a special ed teacher.
I'm a freshman now, and this year I'm in regular classes for Math, Chemistry, Spanish, History, Tech and Phys Ed, but I'm in a special ed English class. |
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normally_impaired
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Age: 28
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I was in the resource room pretty much every day right up until 5th grade. For Elementary school, we had 2 recesses a day, twice a week one of my recesses would be spent in Occupational Therapy. I was also taken to OT every time they showed a movie or video in class, and I'd still have to take the test on the video even though they didn't let me watch it.
For Middle school, I spent 6th and 7th grades at a little tiny school 45 minutes from my house. The school had 50 students total, in 5 10 person groups. Each group spent their entire day together, and my group just happened to be the most disruptive group, so I didn't really learn anything for both years. They realized that and put me back in public school for 8th grade.
That little school also had another thing about it, they treated everybody like an adult. I got used to that, I got used to being allowed to have a drink with me in the classroom, I got used to being able to sit comfortably, with my feet up on an unused chair, stuff like that. When I was put in the public school, I had no IEP, and no provisions for special ed. This was doomed to fail from the start. I was still on essentially a 5th grade level, but I was being expected to perform on an 8th grade level. This lead to teachers assuming that I was lazy, and since they were only told that I went to a private school, they assumed that the reason I was failing was because I wasn't being challenged enough, so they pushed even harder. After about 2 months of failing everything and being sent to detention for "not taking the class seriously", they finally figured out what was wrong, so they had me take all of my classes in the Resource room.
That's when things got really interesting. For one thing, the kids that were my best friends in 5th grade didn't want anything to do with me. After 2 years, I was the "new kid", and being an obvious SPED kid, didn't help. I had hardly any friends, people that used to be my best friends didn't even remember my name, but since everybody just called me retard, everybody else followed suit.
The public school teachers were even worse, every time I had a Tourette's Syndrome tic, they assumed I was being disruptive and would send me to detention, it took another month for them to finally bother to check my records and see that I actually did in fact have Tourette's Syndrome. Once they realized that, any time I had a tic they hadn't seen in anybody before, they would still assume I was doing it for attention. One teacher even said "I worked with Tourette's kids before, and they don't act like you do, so stop making fun of people that actually suffer from it". I even had one teacher say "do you want to be rich like Bill Gates? do you think he could've gotten where he did if he didn't pay attention to his teachers?" This is of course ironic since Bill Gates was a high school drop out.
After another unproductive year, I was about to go into highschool, still on barely more than a 5th grade level. The school board realized that I wouldn't get anywhere in the public highschool, so I ended up at another small highschool, again 45 minutes away by the short bus. This school wasn't much better than the school I was in for 6th and 7th grade, except that this school was on the grounds of a public high school, so I constantly had a reminder that I wasn't normal. This school didn't challenge me, they gave me 3rd grade work (it actually said 3rd grade edition on all the textbooks). I spent a year working as hard as I could. Sometimes they'd give me a book and tell me that this was my assignment for the rest of the month. I'd finish the assignment within 2 days, and they'd just give me more of the same crap.
I was so fed up with this that I was ready to commit suicide, nobody would take me seriously, they just treated me like everybody else in the class. The worst was how whenever somebody acted out in the class, the teachers would say "real high school kids don't do stuff like that", despite their being a mainstream classroom right next to ours, and yelling could be heard all the time. They used this thing they called "Reality Therapy" where as they continued to run the class like a kindergarten, every time someone had an issue with something, they'd say "well, nobody's going to help you in the real world". So that was it, be treated like a kindergartner, but be told that we're supposed to act like adults.
After 2 unsuccessful suicide attempts, I tried smoking Cannabis. Once I started doing that, I could concentrate my thoughts better. I even got other ideas, like every day during lunch period, I'd walk down the halls of the regular high school, looking into the rooms. Any I saw something interesting, I'd stand in the hall outside the door, or sit on the grass outside the open window and listen. I learned more that way than any other way.
Eventually, by my Junior year, they decided that I could start taking what they called "mainstream" classes, where I could take regular highschool classes. They decided that I could take up to 3 classes in one semester, but I would still have to take the rest of my classes in the sped school. Whenever a mandatory class was going on in the sped school, that would take precedence over the Mainstream class. Because of this, I was a highschool Junior taking Freshman's classes, and even though most of the classes went 5 days a week, I could only be in them for 3 of the 5 days each week, yet I was still expected to fully succeed. When I turned 18, and I found out that I had the ability to sign my own early release notes, I started having "doctor's appointments" almost every day. I'd dismiss myself from school, go to the real school, and take my classes. This was the only way I actually learned anything.
The sped school was an 8 year program, but my town was only willing to pay for 4. After 4 years, I graduated on a 9th grade level with all Ds. That's when I found out that the sped school didn't give out diplomas, and that my town didn't give them out to students who weren't schooled in town. My mother fought this tooth and nail, and finally I was allowed to get a diploma from my town, but I would have to attend the graduation ceremony. This way, I technically graduated from a school I had never even set foot inside.
All in all, I've learned a lot more over the internet than I did since 5th grade. |
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TheKingsRaven
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Age: 21
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| Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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I was in special ed but for dyslexia rather than AS (from an educational point of view dyslexia is causing way more problems than AS). My special ed teacher was really brilliant, mostly I studied spelling and other assorted dyslexia things, she also taught me touch typing one of the most useful things I learnt in school. She was also my advocate whenever it was needed, most notably me and a couple of other people didn't do any foreign languages for GCSEs.
In Uni its really scaled down, but I still get the extra time and a computer for exam work, really handy. |
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MathGirl
Phoenix
Joined: Apr 12, 2009
Age: 18
Posts: 752
Location: Toronto, ON
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| Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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| TheKingsRaven wrote: | I was in special ed but for dyslexia rather than AS (from an educational point of view dyslexia is causing way more problems than AS). My special ed teacher was really brilliant, mostly I studied spelling and other assorted dyslexia things, she also taught me touch typing one of the most useful things I learnt in school. She was also my advocate whenever it was needed, most notably me and a couple of other people didn't do any foreign languages for GCSEs.
In Uni its really scaled down, but I still get the extra time and a computer for exam work, really handy. |
Is it possible to have AS and dyslexia at the same time? I thought all people with ASD were hyperlexic.
At least that's what it says on Wikipedia.
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AnonymousAnonymous
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Joined: Nov 24, 2006
Age: 19
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Location: Portland, Oregon
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| Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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I was in special ed K-8, mainly to work on social skills.
For grades 6-8, my pathologist had no clue on how to work with ASD students.
IEP'ed from K-12.
Saw a school psychiatrist 9-12; teachers didn't want
me seeing the school pathologist. In perspective, they were right.
Thank goodness the IEP no longer is needed in community college.
The counselors who run the Office for Students with Disabilities {OSD}
are only there Mondays & Tuesdays, which is fine.
Most OSD students don't want to see the counselors on campus.
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TheKingsRaven
Toucan
Joined: Feb 17, 2009
Age: 21
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Location: UK
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| MathGirl wrote: | Is it possible to have AS and dyslexia at the same time? I thought all people with ASD were hyperlexic.
At least that's what it says on Wikipedia. |
My reading is way above average, my spelling and hand writing are way below average. |
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LAEMapsie
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| Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| In Primary School I went to a special needs school, In Secondary (High) School I went to a Mainstream School which had a SEN base. |
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eet2006
Emu Egg
Joined: May 28, 2009
Age: 21
Posts: 8
Location: California, USA
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 2:57 am Post subject: |
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| My K-12 education was weird. I was put in the gifted program in 4th grade and then in Special Ed in 10th grade. It's like, which one am I people? Make up your minds! Not to mention that the only thing they had was a social skills class at the other HS in the district (my school's rival) and from what I heard, it wasn't worth it. At first they put me in the emotionally disturbed category, and finally put me in the autism category. I mean really, who isn't emotionally disturbed these days anyway? I totally took advantage of it all too, cause they let me leave class whenever I thought I was gonna have an angry outburst, so I skipped English and PE a ton and just chatted with my guidance counselor or VP until class was over. LOL, that was fun...Now I'm in the disabled students programs and services at my college, and I get to have extra time on tests, notetakers, tape recorders, books on audio and it's great, I mean they actually care. LOL |
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Corydaman93
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Age: 16
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Location: Oakville, Ontario
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| Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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In elementary I always had educational assistants with me in regular classrooms and in high school I have been in the essential level program. So I guess those two can count as special ed.
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protest_the_hero
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
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Location: Ottawa, Ont.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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Not me. I don't have an IEP now either, though I know a lucky aspie who has one and got out of gym class and French, the lucky bastard.
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MONKEY
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Age: 16
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Location: The moon
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| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| protest_the_hero wrote: | | Not me. I don't have an IEP now either, though I know a lucky aspie who has one and got out of gym class and French, the lucky bastard. |
Last year I nearly stopped having an IEP, because I hating having one because it made me feel different. My mum and head of special needs department kept trying to persuade me otherwise, I didn't listen though. I asked my friend's mentor if she could ask head of spesh ed departent to knock me off their resgister, she did ask but I never heard anything and I still had an IEP. I didn't mind eventually because my executive function sucks so I could do with a little bit of help, only the bare minimum though.
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Xenu
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| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| i was in special ed for years, but now im considered e.d. (emotionally disturbed) and go to classes with kids with bipolar, depression, severe add/adhd, and aspergers, bassicly kids that cant handel being in mainstream classes but are not retarded |
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