Monthly Archives: November 2011

>Thanksgiving Holiday

>I give thanks. My family was together for the holiday.  Our youngest came home from the residential facility for the weekend.  He was home from Wednesday to Sunday, and I am very proud to say that no major issues occurred.  It was a great weekend.  There were a few times when he wanted something his way, and we were able to handle it without a meltdown.  I think the only “major” issue was when he was caught playing with a screwdriver around an outlet.  He has been known to strip all of the outlet covers from a room. There was a brief moment where he was sneaking around, but I think that was a test of his boundaries.  All in all it was a good weekend. On a side note, my health has been kind of strange.  I lost my appetite last Wednesday and it just never really recovered.  It has been

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>IEP Meeting

>Had an IEP meeting for our son.  Why do we continue to struggle with the school district?  This time, we brought the superintendents name into it.  I had talked to him late last week about the hesitation that we felt from the principal at the elementary school in accepting our son into the school, as well as including staff in meetings about our son. It just seems crazy to me that what should be common sense when working with a child, they seem to lack.  If a child is in a residential facility for kids with special mental health needs, and the staff there has experience with that child, wouldn’t it be beneficial to hear how those people work with the child to ensure that the child is as successful as he can be?  It would seem obvious to me. So now, we are having a staffing in two weeks

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>Appeal results

>We received notice of our appeal determination today.  Evidently the only people who can appeal the decision is the person found to have committed the abuse or neglect.  Our appeal was denied because we weren’t the ones who had been accused of the abuse of neglect.   So evidently, in the state of North Dakota, it is acceptable practice to lock a child with special needs in a room all by himself as a means of restraint or control.   For some reason, I have a huge problem with that. 1.  the room was on the second floor, and by the school’s own admission, our son was banging on the windows with a chair.  what would have happened if the window had broke out, and he had gone through the window? 2.  in the room there was a desk, in that desk our son found two pairs of scissors, and

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