milivica
12-18-2008, 10:05 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/17/seclusion.rooms/index.html#cnnSTCText
It'll be a story on CNN, overall, I don't think much will change. If there's one constant in history, no one gives a crap about the disabled weather child or adult, cognitive disability or mental disorder. 'The World' doesn't give a crap any more than it does about all the different genocide that's occurred since Hitler.
This sure brings back memories of all the fighting, even going to jail, trying to get rid of that so called time out room. No one did squat, from the Office of Civil Rights who came out from Chicago to investigate, to the Wisconsin Coalition for Advocacy (ha! no help at all) all the way down the the police, no one cares if autistic kids are locked up, as long as it's called a 'time out' it seems to be quite legal...as is all the mental and physical harm that happens to them due to the 'time-outs', and bear in mind, it is the incompetence of teachers that create the child being overloaded and getting the time out. In the end, I contacted the United States Dept of Education as well as the United States Dept of Civil Rights...they referred me to the agencies that already didn't to squat. I persisted both on the phone and in emails, to no avail.
Even loving well meaning teachers who simply have never gotten the training - I actually met one of those who had a brother with special needs so was loving and kind to my son like he deserved...she still didn't know what to do for him but at least knew what not to do.
Since this is finally getting press, maybe I'll once again bring up Vincent's story, since it is still occurring to other kids (Vince is way past getting time outs). Maybe print all the negative stories I can get on seclusion rooms - certainly there are no positive stories on them cause if they worked there'd be evidence by improvement of our children, not decline and frustration and as Vince put it, "being treated like a zoo animal." Maybe send these stories and Vincent's and the photos I have of the seclusion rooms and chairs with belts, to the local churches and officials. I want to see an attack of conscious, but I'm doubting I know how to create that, heck, not their kid, not their problem, ain't that how folks think?
Sorry, I'm not even in a bad mood per say, but seclusion rooms are just not something I can stand hearing about. I can't believe I ever bought into the notion that school needed to use them or my horrible terrible son wouldn't be able to go there cause he was so rotten and badly behaved and disrespectful...duh, he has autism...be nice if he was all those things cause that would sure take some wonderful theory of mind.
This poor family, can you imagine? School killing your child, can you imagine? I can't imagine. Then the whole legal process they've endured in addition to their grief? I can just hear the trial in my head, how they'll vilify the child and his parents, and the teachers will be the poor widdle saintly victims of the child. Awww, the poor teachers are so overwhelmed...so that makes it ok? What about the kids? I'm sorry but a time out room...we can fly to the moon, split an atom, and can't think of better than a time out room? Don't think so. And, for God sakes, I delivered a woman to them with all the answers!!!!! It's not like they didn't know what to do, they didn't want to do what was right, just pass the kid along, throw him in a room, no biggie, cause no one cares it would seem.
It'll be a story on CNN, overall, I don't think much will change. If there's one constant in history, no one gives a crap about the disabled weather child or adult, cognitive disability or mental disorder. 'The World' doesn't give a crap any more than it does about all the different genocide that's occurred since Hitler.
This sure brings back memories of all the fighting, even going to jail, trying to get rid of that so called time out room. No one did squat, from the Office of Civil Rights who came out from Chicago to investigate, to the Wisconsin Coalition for Advocacy (ha! no help at all) all the way down the the police, no one cares if autistic kids are locked up, as long as it's called a 'time out' it seems to be quite legal...as is all the mental and physical harm that happens to them due to the 'time-outs', and bear in mind, it is the incompetence of teachers that create the child being overloaded and getting the time out. In the end, I contacted the United States Dept of Education as well as the United States Dept of Civil Rights...they referred me to the agencies that already didn't to squat. I persisted both on the phone and in emails, to no avail.
Even loving well meaning teachers who simply have never gotten the training - I actually met one of those who had a brother with special needs so was loving and kind to my son like he deserved...she still didn't know what to do for him but at least knew what not to do.
Since this is finally getting press, maybe I'll once again bring up Vincent's story, since it is still occurring to other kids (Vince is way past getting time outs). Maybe print all the negative stories I can get on seclusion rooms - certainly there are no positive stories on them cause if they worked there'd be evidence by improvement of our children, not decline and frustration and as Vince put it, "being treated like a zoo animal." Maybe send these stories and Vincent's and the photos I have of the seclusion rooms and chairs with belts, to the local churches and officials. I want to see an attack of conscious, but I'm doubting I know how to create that, heck, not their kid, not their problem, ain't that how folks think?
Sorry, I'm not even in a bad mood per say, but seclusion rooms are just not something I can stand hearing about. I can't believe I ever bought into the notion that school needed to use them or my horrible terrible son wouldn't be able to go there cause he was so rotten and badly behaved and disrespectful...duh, he has autism...be nice if he was all those things cause that would sure take some wonderful theory of mind.
This poor family, can you imagine? School killing your child, can you imagine? I can't imagine. Then the whole legal process they've endured in addition to their grief? I can just hear the trial in my head, how they'll vilify the child and his parents, and the teachers will be the poor widdle saintly victims of the child. Awww, the poor teachers are so overwhelmed...so that makes it ok? What about the kids? I'm sorry but a time out room...we can fly to the moon, split an atom, and can't think of better than a time out room? Don't think so. And, for God sakes, I delivered a woman to them with all the answers!!!!! It's not like they didn't know what to do, they didn't want to do what was right, just pass the kid along, throw him in a room, no biggie, cause no one cares it would seem.