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no. they are "on the spectrum" or they have behavioral issues. seriously, these kids talk, play, do kindergarten age appropriate activities...i have no idea why they have put them in a class for kids like frank..or maybe frank is the only kid like him there, which is more likely. i begged them...

the class he is in...is nothing but kids who can hear, and are so far ahead of him, its unreal. i dont even know why they are there!

hell no they arent qualified and what they were doing is feeding him all the formula at once!! which is why he came home puking his face off.

ive got one...this is the really sad part. last year, when he first started school, one of the aides through an absolute titty baby fit because he had to be tube fed 4 times during the school day..she said they didnt have time, and refused to do it, so we had to get a disability attorney up...

it is a public school, and i found out from frankies audiologist that there is an awesome all deaf/disabled program in the next town..apparently they have kids like frank, who are deaf but really delayed, and its almost like they immerse the kids in sign language. i plan on pushing for that, if...

the deaf school wont take him, i already tried that...they said that they have delayed kids, but not kids as delayed as frank, and kids that require tube feeding. that sucks because my husbands friend went there, and he did just fine! im open to the communication devices but i honestly think...

i think you are right. i just dont get why its a huge deal though. at all of the deaf community events, most of them just use sign, they dont talk..and they dont seem to have any issues! stupid stupid people, all of them.

i cant wait until the next iep meeting, i am seriously thinking of having the lady from the deaf school call in and educate everyone at once :lol: im seriously tired of dealing with schools though...it never ends. if they arent bitching about him not eating, they are bitching about his hearing...

i still cant believe they said that. im just glad she said it in email, too! here is what im wondering. since frank only knows a few signs, can we really insist that they teach him sign language?? i really want to start pushing this, but they said he has to learn to speak orally, which totally...

she seriously told all of us at the iep meeting that if we were to just teach him sign language, he couldnt ever go to mcdonalds because the workers there wouldnt know what he wanted!! maybe its because we havent really dealt with any deaf issues up until now, but i never knew people had...

hes 5 now...and yeah, the principal said that the only way he could thrive was if there was some sort of community for deaf people! luckily, she said this in front of his audiologist, who is really big in the local deaf community. the community of deaf people that have managed to live on their...

hello again! i really need some advice on something...so frankie is doing pretty good, pretty much the same but we are hanging in there. so he has progressed enough that he is able to mimic a few signs now, FINALLY...it only took a few years but hes doing it. here is the issue. the school is...

that is the sad thing..they WERE in the case. he got his new ones today but we are going to exchange them monday because they are pink instead of red.

thank you! hes getting so big..i was looking at his pictures from last year, and i cant believe how much bigger hes gotten. one thing he does now, and this is adorable..he will get his hearing aids off of the desk and bring them to me now! he loves wearing them..and his glasses. we are getting...

thank you! here is another picture of him..he really is a good baby. i just hope we can help him develop and learn more so he can eventually learn sign language, or even learn to point at pictures even.