I created a facebook group for parents of children with Reactive Attachment Disorder. If you, or someone you know fits this description, please share this link with them. https://www.facebook.com/groups/ReactiveAttachementDisorders/ It is a closed group, only members can read the posts to it. Tweet #fighting4answrs
We received a copy of David’s treatment plan today. Work on not stealing. Work on aggressive response. Safety plan – If David has a behavior that is aggressive, this is how they will respond to it. In order. Regroup Grounding Time Out Physical Escort Physical Transport NCI (Non-Crisis Intervention) Seclusion Hospitalization Legal Action as necessary Seems straight forward. We also learned that David has been caught stealing just about everyday that he has been a resident. Tweet #fighting4answrs
We are blessed. We are blessed to have an incredible team of caring people working for David’s behalf. Today we had an IEP team meeting and talked about strengths and weaknesses. David has many of each. In future posts I will talk about many of them. Today though, let us talk about the team. Caring professionals all, teachers, administrators, counselors, social workers, it was a full house. Between 10 and 15 people. Not our smallest meeting, but surely one of the best we have ever had. Each teacher started by discussing strengths, then clarifying weaknesses, followed again by a strength. The key here was that while discussing the weaknesses, the strengths were stressed more. We applied a number of goals for David this year, we will discuss those at length in other posts, there is too much for one post, but each one is unique to David’s situation. They even