Susan mom to Rebecca trisomy 18 moasaic age 10!! and Mark ADD/LD age 9 wife to Glenn Newcastle Ontario Canada >> >Dear Susan, > Hmmm where do I start. This student is non verbal and pretty much >always non compliant, lol! Actually I hate that term, but there are very have you tried any alternate form of communication? is he non complient because he is nonverbal and not getting his ideas across and therefore frustrated? >few things I can ask him to do without him yelling and trying to hit out >at >someone. what does the mom do for discipline? maybe a team meeting to discuss appropriate restrictions and goals >His mom says I should talk to him as though he was a >toddler, you know with a kind of sing song voice and I do, but it is not >going down too well here in middle school. I can see the problen there > My other problem is that when >he does strike out at the other students in my class, they are unable to >avoid him as they are all in wheelchairs and one is cortically blind. > so he is mobile? last year my daughter who is not mobile and whos class mates for the most part were not either had two atusitic boys in the class and the teacher had the same problen, she and the EA's spent much time redirecting these boys, they are in another class this year >Susan mom to Rebecca trisomy 18 moasaic age 10!! and Mark ADD/LD age 9 wife to Glenn Newcastle Ontario Canada > Building ___ooOOoo__ Rainbows > www.trisomyonline.org > Families Helping Families On-line > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Building ___ooOOoo__ Rainbows www.trisomyonline.org Families Helping Families On-line