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2010-05-14 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Autistic Boy Charged With Making Terrorist Threats Over Stick-Figure Sketch

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Posted by gorb 2010-05-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Doesn't sound like these school officials have too much experience with autistic kids. These kids require a lot of patience. Some have little or no expression and no communication. The fact that this boy is expressing himself gives a teacher something to work with if they are willing to set aside preconceived notions about what they think is going on in the kids head.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-14 09:04|| 2010-05-14 09:04|| Front Page Top

#2 If the kid is genuinely autistic, they may have bitten off more than they can chew, legally.

Posted by Bugs Speart6083 2010-05-14 12:58|| 2010-05-14 12:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Autistic kids can be a big challenge. I recall seeing autistic twins one time. They had invented their own language. It seemed they knew what they were communicating but no one else did.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-14 18:06|| 2010-05-14 18:06|| Front Page Top

#4 This is probably doing a *lot* of damage to the kid - punishing him for communicating is just going to drive him to not communicate at all.

What they should have done is use this as an opprotunity to communicate with the child - attempt to get him to open up about his feelings and express himself more (and possibly in a more constructive way). They are just going to drive him to follow his tendency to *not* communicate.

As for the school officials - someone ought to be fired. Not allowed to resign or laid off - outright F-I-R-E-D.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-05-14 18:54|| 2010-05-14 18:54|| Front Page Top

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