ABA mums can you tell me....

[colabottles]

What was your dc level of autism functioning/verbal/receptive etc.

How many hrs was your dc in school when starting ABA?

How many hours was you dc in school after:

1yr of ABA
2 yrs of ABA
3 yrs of ABA
4 yrs of ABA
5 yrs of ABA....

How long did it take to intergrate your dc into MS school?

Then how long did it take to fade the ABA shadow in school? Or was this done at same time as intergrating into school.

For those who been through ABA process how many years was it althogether...and where is your dc now...ie fulltime Mainstream with 1:1 or on own; SN unit etc...

Just starting off and want to see how long this road is....

No...why?

Do you like my name!!

Sorry back to serious stuff....any mums give me an idea???

StarlightMcKenzie,
Police of all things ABA!

Heehee

What is it with you and the new people, starlight? Every thread from a new person that I've been on this week has been you either scaring them with predictions of doom (the Steph one), making a 'joke' (the response to the newbie telling us about IPSEA) or now this one! Just don't answer if you don't want to - coming here should be welcoming for new people. Some people read but don't post. Why the third degree? Sorry, Starlight, but I think you're being quite unwelcoming at times and I don't think we were like that at all when you or others started.

If I'd got this sort of response to my first post on the SN board (who are you?/ Why do you want to know?/ well, life will just be terrible or bad at best/ why don't you move/) then I would have never come back and never got (or given) the support that this board's all about.

colabottles, sorry I can't help.

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I think Starlight is just trying to establish if colabottles is known under a different name. (ie not a journalist posing as a mum etc etc). Think we are all a bit paranoid having been stung in the past.

I'm an old Nana here just want to be anomisssshhhh(sp)

Starlight love you to bits hun (((hugs))))

I think thats why I name changed...PARANIOA got an Annual Review coming up and well scared stiff ABA going to be taken away...

So Any mum's wanna name change and tell me then how long it took to intergrate your dc?

I'll start and tell you mine...1 yr LEA funded...8 hrs in school (worried LEA will stop ABA as intergration is rather slow...or is it???? unless I compare I don't know IYGWIM)

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My boy is currently half in mainstream (with 1-to-1) and half at home ABA. We have moved gradually towards this, as he started off in nursery with only 2 pm's in school, the rest of the sessions at home. It gradually went up, maybe 1 session more at school every term or two.

He's now in Year 1 and they are pushing for him to go full time to school and drop the home ABA, but I am pushing back as he still needs a lot of intensive 1-to-1 home ABA. I have given in and am doing one full day a week at school this term, fewer sessions at home, but I'm not sure if I'll agree to going any further. Hope that helps a little?

I have actually taken legal advice on all this, and the point is that the LEA/school are supposed to demonstrate evidence that the child should be in school not home ABA - I have evidence of the opposite, so that is good. My boy still needs the intensive speech therapy side of VB at home, though the social and academic side of school is great.

Thankyou sickofsocalledexperts

I'm worried other way round..that he should be in school more for opportunity for social interaction...as more time goes on more he would prefer to be home/not interact.

Also LEA might try and stop ABA as intergration has only been 1 hr this year.

Hope he copes all day! Mind you increasing a FULL half day is a bit much...my boy gets increased half hour at a time...thats why it is taking so long! Getting a bit impatient with how long it is taking though.

Half hour at a time is an interesting thought, thanks Cola!

Remember that in your case it ought to be simpler, as EVERY kid in this country has a legal right to a mainstream place if the parents/main carers request it, subject only to the school accepting they can meet the child's needs and the education of the child not being inconsistent with the "efficient education of other children". What all that legal stuff boils down to is this:- can the child do a bit of the academic work, even if at a very different level to other kids; can they cope quietly and non-aggressively in the classroom, or will they be noisy and disrupt the class. You are in a very powerful position to say what you want re mainstream inclusion, remember it's your child's right.

Be careful not to lose any funding if you dump home ABA though, as maybe you will want an ABA-trained 1-to-1 at school with your child, as my boy has with him at school.

My case is a bit different as I essentially want Flexi-schooling (half home ABA, half mainstream inclusion), but as yet there's no real legal basis for it and you have to get the school to agree to it (which they often won't , as they are servants to the LEA). Good luck!

No bee in bonnet except thinking new people should be welcomed, not scared or interrogated.

You are right Starlight, it should be no different than a unit, but apparently the flexischooling I want (which is seen as half home education, half school) hasn't really gained much acceptance yet. There was a move by Ed Balls to make it more commonplace, but he probably won't still be in power at the time when he proposes it would come into legal force. Current law suggests you need the headteacher's approval, but they often won't go against the LEA. And the LEA really really don't like home schooling, as they want everyone neatly put into schools. To my mind, there would be a lot of kids, particularly with SEN, who would benefit from some socialisation at school but also some home intensive one-to-one home ed. It would also probably prevent a lot of the SEN exclusions, which may be due to sensory overload of time at school, when actually they need time-out from the crowds and noise. But it really is hard to get at the moment so I may have a fight on my hands. However, I have fought my LEA quite a lot a long the way, and so far they have been quite amenable, but I do find that you get more through honey than through vinegar (ie what I say is firm and definite, but how I say it is charming and polite).

I think my school are too wimpy to stand up to the LEA, even though it's glaringly obvious that my DS wouldn't cope/shouldn't be in full-time school. In fact I think the school are rather pleased I'm fighting it, and are hiding behind my skirt as I do it! To me, it is just the right balance for my autistic DS and works really well. Good luck Starlight

Fair enough, Starlight. Me too.

Two sugars in mine Star!

Oh the school 100% fab, supportive and dont listen to the powers above...but they do have the power at end of day to pull carpet. It took a change in school and fair bit of travelling each day when the other school was a walk accross the field but so worth the effort.... IEP tomorrow...I will soon know tomorrow if I am correct.

I didnt know Ed Balls was having these type of policices going through...where have I been, oh I remember doing ABA cause I can't find tutors!!

You are very sweet sickofsocalled but my LEA would eat you sweet or sharpe. They have no taste buds.