To: ambrose
Doesn't that represent just about every child in existence?
29 posted on
04/29/2004 12:09:03 PM PDT by
Solson
(Conservatives are concerned with the'end'; Liberals about the 'means' and the 'particulars.')
To: Solson
No. Sadly it doesn't, and it makes for difficult early years.......
Though, the two things they are blessed with (usually) is phenomonal long term memory, and above average IQ.......
So, for them, at least the trade off is more fair than real Autistic children.
34 posted on
04/29/2004 12:11:00 PM PDT by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: Solson
I had one student whose parents and therapist were adamant about labelling with Augsberger. He was an unmotivated C student, and didn't seem "different" at all. He was moderately unresponsive to social situations (not laughing when the class laughed, etc). That was about it. He had friends, and liked to laugh and talk with them privately.
Why that called for an entire battery of tests, specialists, and scholastic perks (tesing in separate room with a "helper", more time for tests, more time for homework, two periods per day with specialists, etc) was self-evident... the school got more money, the specialists justified their own existence (while the student body grew by over 200 over 5 years, we got only 1 new teacher position added... and 6 new specialists), and the mother (whom I would've had tested for Munchausen by Proxy, personally) had her hysteria assuaged (temporarily).
The child's grades did not imporove, he said he didn't want to be "different" and put in special classes, and the staff got more paperwork. *sigh*
To: Solson
Doesn't that represent just about every child in existence?No, it doesn't, but hey...FR is just full of armchair psychologists, neurologists, pastors, etc.
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