Parent training at Boston Higashi School?
Parent training at Boston Higashi School?
Last night my husband and I went to the school for the Parent Training.
I was very interesting. We have been before but this was the most insight
into what they do with Abbie.
The subject was the physical Exercise and the things they do in Physical
Education.
I can out thinking that if Abbie had been in this program years ago
(preschool) she would be so far ahead and
so would we as a family.
We were showed (and had to do !) many of the exercise activities they do
with her division. The teacher (PE TEACHER)
was Japanese and she was very energetic. The rest of the staff for the
younger division is made up of Japanese and American staff.
We were first shown the exercises that make up the program (including those
they use for behavior management that teaches the child to
control their own behaviors such as self abuse and stimming)
Then they did the jogging with us around the Gym. I did pretty well with
this considering how I do not jog. We then held hands
(they have the children do this to learn social skills) and run around the
gym. The gym is very large . We ran around and around and then
in one direction and in another direction. Then forward then in reverse.
Then we did exercises standing in place again with the ones they do for
behavior management (called the three poses)
All of this done to MUSIC by the way which Abbie loves.
Then we did things with balls. We got into teams and did a thing in twos
running in relay with balls .
It was great and I can see how Abbie is really able to learn. This exercise
is somehow rewiring her brain and opening her up to
want to do the academics. She sleeps through the night now (boy do I know
why since I did also last night) and is calm and happier
What a contrast to sitting in that public school in CIRCLE time at 10 1/2
years old signing WHEELS on the BUS and GOOD MORNING SONG
etc doing mundane table work with beans and colored shapes over and over
again each day.
The teachers walking around in the public school class treating them like
imbeciles and like they were deaf because most were non
verbal.
I know not all public school programs for autistic children are not like
that (or at least I hope not)
No wonder Abbie freaked out last year when I stupidly agreed to put her in
that class.
Anybody help me Management Parent Training?
- I found this post so interesting. When Benji's oldest sister was little she
had a lot of problems concentrating in class. She was written up and the
principal went to the class to observe her. His notes read: Tiffany is
squirming, Tiffany is playing with her braids, Tiffany drops her pencil,
Tiffany looks out the window, Tiffany is squirming again.
They had an evaluator at the school who was not thought of particularly
highly by the other staff because they felt she had strange ideas. She was
from Japan. She asked if Tiffany could be put in a group that she had
meeting in the evenings at the school. There was no charge. We felt it
certainly couldn't hurt so we took her down several nights a week. She did
many of the things you listed here. The kids also pretended to be wheel
barrows holding on to each others legs and racing across the gym. The
teacher said many of these kids never crawled (Tif bypassed crawling for
walking) and therefore had not developed inner balance. She said that they
were working so hard on keeping this balance they could not concentrate.
- I don't think it's strange at all. By disorienting them
they are forced into a greater awareness of the outside
world. Riding a bike really fast does this for me.
It's not a cure, but it yanks me out of it and there
is a lingering awareness for some time after.