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When people don't know

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On Friday when I went to go pick up DS to go to OT, I ran into the daycare director and she told me that DS does not have autism. All that was listed on the report was PDD-NOS.

Their teachers don't know anything about autism so I invited them to a presentation that a ABA therapist gave last week that was hosted by the Autism Society here. I plan to invite them as much as possible so they can learn about autism. I even gave them 2 handouts that I got from the Autism Society.

I told her that what was on the report was the type of autism he has (that was the best that I could to describe it to her) and that autism is different with each child.

She informed me that DS is doing really well in daycare. Keep in mind that we have been going to therapy since May of this year. So all the therapy we are doing is showing improvement. I told her we are going to continue therapies.

I wanted to be a smart a-- and say if he has nothing why the heck are DH and I busting our butts to get all the therapies. Or what she really was saying is that she does not want to service my son or acknowledge he is different developmentally.

I just wanted to vent. Can you please help me to find more resources I can provide my daycare?

TIA

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  • MirandaHobbesMirandaHobbes member
    That's annoying. Before we were at a SN preschool DS went to a small, caring church center. The teachers were not familier with autism at all, and my EI therapists at the time made a point to visit DS at daycare every couple weeks to check in with them and provide advice/guidance.
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    That is an idea! Maybe I could see if the behavior therapist or the autism society leader can help me here.

    I have a feeling DS may be the only boy who has autism at his daycare. His special needs preschool is knowledgable (sp?).

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  • wendyonewendyone member

    Hi!

    There's a really, really great website for resources related to autism for families, schools, and individuals that the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (who are amazing) endorses.  

     https://autismnow.org/in-the-classroom/

     This is the "In the Classroom" page (for Autism Now)-- but if you search "preschool" in the search bar, a lot of great resources come up, including multimedia :)

    I love this site.  It also has a search engine for local resources, pages on "at home" materials, and tons of information that's useful from early childhood way up to adulthood regarding career planning and jobs (when ASAN becomes very helpful too).

     I hope some of these are helpful for educating the daycare- I'm working with a not particularly enlightened daycare right now, and it's frustrating.  Best of luck :)

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