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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (477893)5/5/2009 1:14:12 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (2) of 1575072
 
Sure no problem. Thank God for people like your daughter.

Some of the standard 'treatment' parents once gave, has been lost over a couple of generations of absent parents and overly permissive parents who aren't fully engaged in the rich nurturing, encouraging, and guiding processes that was at one time a standard of our culture.

There is a range of autism from very mild to severe and we don't really understand the causes. The experts, probably including your daughter, prefer to think of it as all organically located in the brain and tragically unavoidable for those who've been identified. No socio/environmental research is funded because of the trauma it would cause parents. I submit that we are picking up the slack, in some cases, for slagger parents and that is one of the 'causes'. So as shocking as it is, Savage's comment is not totally without merit.

I've no doubt my kid could have been labeled as an under achiever with ADD in third grade and that the SpEd teacher would have done well helping her work up to average achievement. But I thought, improving my parenting at home was a better path to go and now they would not consider her for SpED testing if I begged them to, unless it was for gifted and talented services (which I think are a joke). She's in Algebra as a Sixth Grader and doing fine with it. She's a year younger than most sixth graders in public school because she went to private school in kindergarten as a 4 year old. I see no sense in going nutso in the direction of over achievement either.
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