I'm conflicted here. On one hand autistic kids should be integrated and allowed to join group activities... On the other hand they are allowed to behave like fucking unbelievable tyrants, taking the attention time and care of a huge number of supervisors and completely disrupting other kids and showing those kids that yep the rules don't apply to some people, just you.
Why didn't they volunteer and help their son integrate into the environment rather than handing all responsibility to randoms and then sue?
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Mon 26 Mar 2018, 13:08,
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Two couples I know have very autistic kids. They work their asses off to ensure that their kids understand the environment, the supervisors and (as much as is possible) how to work within that environment......
Where did personal responsibility get replaced by..whatever these parents are doing?
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Mon 26 Mar 2018, 13:39,
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Exactly
Integration works only if the child does not disrupt the other children. This is writen into the Special Educational Needs code and protects all parents' rights.
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The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Mon 26 Mar 2018, 14:38,
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exactly
to Sue an organisation like this who is just trying to do the right thing to develop kids is not a great start to a kids life.
Im sure a £1 claim would have sufficed and a lessons learned built out of it. But i know from experience that 42k is alot of money for such an organisation. I can see alot of volunteers walking away for want for limited exposure to risks of claims. what were the parents thinking?
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Its not that they’re “allowed to” behave a certain way...
... it’s that approaches geared around how to address bad behaviour in kids without autism literally do not work, at all.
From layman’s perspective, I can totally see how people might think that it would be disruptive and seem massively unfair that autistic kids get away with bad behaviour and how that might negatively affect other kids) but in practice, when done right and when you have staff who are knowledgable and well trained, it can actually work really well. Children can understand when other kids are different, and if that difference is acknowledged and not played down, then generally speaking children with autism who behave “badly” cause less issues than when kids without disabilities behave badly.
Yeah, it’s sometimes difficult (I’ve been spat at in the face, punched, bitten) but if you come from a baseline idea that children with disabilities shouldn’t be locked away, and work with that rather than seeing manifestations of their problems as a trigger for excluding them, it works.
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