Comments on: Contact

By: Gwen Benty

Gwen Benty — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:54:20 +0000

Thanks Dawn,
I appreciate your support. I will email my letter I sent to school district #8 in Nelson BC to the telus.net email address. My mother who lives and works on Vancouver Island had a meeting with a women who works for the Austims society in Naniamo – she also has a son with Autism. She refered us to your website. I feel badly that our son was suffering with so much anxiety -we thought that it was his disease process and his age 18 yrs – never ever believed that it was partly due to change in TA – hindsight is 20/20. Our letter will explain are story better…. and you can give us some clear direction how to move on this…. hopefully one day we can mentor other parents… right now there is too much pain…Gwen

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:26:11 +0000

Hi Gwen – This is very troubling, particularly as your description suggests the school is violating your son’s rights: 1) to a TA with the appropriate qualifications to provide the support he needs (as per the Hewko legal decision) and 2) to be provided with a full educational program (expulsion of a child with special needs is one of the few situations that provides grounds for a provincial appeal). You need advocacy support and fast, as time is running out for your son. You should call the Autism Society of BC (www.autismbc.ca) and/or ACT (www.actcommunity.net), which is funded by the province to provide trained staff who can provide family support and advocacy in such situations. If they can’t help you, please email us urgently at momsonthemove@telus.net and we will try to connect you to a volunteer parent advocate.

By: Gwen Benty

Gwen Benty — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:29:54 +0000

We have a son with high functioning Austim in Grade 12. He has been intergrated since kingergarden – we spent the first 3 years in Montreal Quebec.
We have come for far – but he was just expelled Feb 20, 2012 – I can’t go into details in this email – other than to say he has never been violent in all his years at school -Has been experiencing anxiety in the last year and 1/2 – when the TA who was working with him successfully was bumped out of her position and a TA who did not want to work with him was given no choice to be assigned to his case. The school will not consider reintergration and is only funding one 1/2 day a week sick teacher on call to help complete work at home. He is supposed to graduate with a “Dogwood”. We have asked the school board for more hours and they at this point will not consider it. They want to have another meeting May 9 ….. we are upset as we feel that we are being put off…. and because of funding due to his diagnosis we feel that we are not being adequately treated.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:50:03 +0000

Thank you Martin! MOMS made for a nice acronym but dads have been a core part of our group from Day One and huge contributors to our work at every stage! Consider yourself one of many honourary and valued members of MOMkind!

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:25:47 +0000

I really like the positions that you guys are taking. It’s nice to finally find some people talking sense about special needs in public education in BC. It’s too bad you guys aren’t called Parents on the Move, but let me know if you need any help from Dads.

By: Raminder

Raminder — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:25:44 +0000

Hi Preet Brar,
Please send me an email regarding your son. I will let you about the services available in Surrey. Currently, I am running a group with Youth with special needs in Surrey to teach them pre-employment readiness skills and social skills as well.
Please send me an email.
Thanks
Raminder kaur

By: Susan H

Susan H — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:29:04 +0000

I need to move my son to another classroom with support inside the classroom.
He is 10 with high function autism. Live in the try city area-port moody. Had a meeting yesterday with Asst. superintendent,director of special needs,principal and vice principal. We moved from another district where my son had an aide,group setting directed by the special needs teacher. His current teacher had order him out of the classroom and had said at my face that my son does not belong in his class infront of him. Also the teacher had the children in his class rejecting my son by stating that we are immigrants amoung other things to make the children not wanting to be around my son.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:20:24 +0000

It’s upsetting that the BC Liberal continue to be callous about the way CLBC is doing.
Where is the opposition in all these? Where’s the human rights advocate in all these?
CLBC should not be a Crown corporation. It should be a social services dept. with tax payers having a majority vote on how the vulnerable people in society must be treated.
Let’s eliminate this govt. in the next election.

By: Buffy Ramm

Buffy Ramm — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:44:33 +0000

Hi Dawn,
Thanks for the above information. We are also needing advocacy in the school system.
Please add me to your email list. I was once on it, but our email address changed.

Thanks!
Buffy

By: Preet Brar

Preet Brar — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:06:36 +0000

I have a son who was born at 1.1lb and 23 weeks. He is 10 by birthdate but functioning at a 3-4 year level with limited speech, intellectual abilities, epilepsy, ADHD, and recently diagnosed austism with TICS syndrome. I am a single mom trying to understand this all and ways to better support my son in his overrall development. I was wondering if there are support groups in surrey bc and if there is an association for people to turn to for help and support. Are there awareness driven projects in process?