I am a college student from IVY Tech Community College, and I would like to ask a couple of questions to paernts of children with special needs. First I would like to know if you feel that your child’s school system supports your child’s individual needs? Last Why or why not? Thank you for your time and your responses.
Re: Support
School Systems are a bureaucracy.
Which operate under a ‘tick-a-box’ category system!
Children/ Adults are not recognized as Individuals, but rather as a ‘box to be ticked’!
But what if you don’t fit exactly within one of their ‘boxes’?
Well, that means that it is your problem, not theirs!
They don’t have a box to put you in!
Afterall, Special Needs is primarily viewed as a Budgetary Expenditure, along with Stationary and Building Maintenance, etc.
Sort answer is “no”. They try, but they do not treat all types of problems, so they only treat the symptoms because the symptoms are the problem that they face.
My daughter has an auditory processing disorder, but they don’t recognize it. In California they do not recognize a CAPD diagnosis. If it affects a child’s speech they say “SLI speech and language impairment”. If it affects the way they actually process sounds and the child asks “what?” a lot then they call it a hearing problem. They don’t diagnose APD and they don’t have an audiologist on staff to diagnose it. They don’t do any kind of auditory processing therapy. They only remediate reading and send the kids to speech class.
Kathryn