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>Met with the psychiatrist. some of the issues that M has might be related to the combination of meds that he is on. We are changing his meds. Wholesale change in meds. We are going to hospitalize him as soon as a bed opens up and he will come off all of his current meds. (called a med wash) then we will start him on new meds, beginning with a med for the bipolar disorder and working out from there with the bipolar disorder as the base diagnosis and beginning point for treatment. As the doctor says, we won’t cure him, but we can help him be better, and then, in time, he can learn to control some of his behaviors. Every time she looks at the med list from our previous psychiatrist, she just shakes her head… When they pull him off the meds, he will be in the

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>M stole again. Four cell phones from the school. I think that they are teaching resources. Last week in our meeting with the school administration we asked them to escort M to the main hallway of the school where I wait for him and our other boys. To keep him from following through on the compulsion to take things that don’t belong to him. The agreed upon solution was for me to wait in the hall outside the Resource Room. I won’t do that until I get it in writing from the school, especially after they told me that people are intimidated by me. here is a thought… what if the phones were intentionally left out? I can’t prove it, but every teacher, staff person in the building is aware of the issues with M stealing stuff. In order for him to be Successful, the school needs to be fully

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>We have been instructed to pass a notebook back and forth to the school with comments and questions regarding our son. Today we asked why the case manager wasn’t at our meeting last week. The answer: “Since the meeting is administrative, and not about M’s IEP, I was told I didn’t need to be there.” Since we talked at length about the case manager, and the statements made to the Deputy Sheriff, as well as the IEP, it would have been good for her to be there to talk things out and move forward. Tweet #fighting4answrs