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Comment on Contact by Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:33:33 +0000

Hi..I have a 13 year old child with high functioning autism..he is very outgoing however he is having problems making friends and is need of a youth social group where he can make friends and have a social life with other like minded youth.I also have a 6 year old child with autism who loves sports and I have had difficulty finding a program for him so he can learn and play with others with autism..thanks Stephanie…surrey.

Comment on MOMS: Province, BCTF not putting students first in contract dispute by Bart Miles

Bart Miles — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:49:47 +0000

While there certainly is stronger evidence to support the impact of class size in the earlier grades, it seems to make good sense that class size would continue to make a difference to students in later grades, although the impact may not be as significant as it is in the early grades. The PISA study clearly supports this conclusion.

Comment on Disturbing CLBC reports continue to emerge as Premier dodges external review by bill woolsey

bill woolsey — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:24:47 +0000

Hell-o There

Just found this site and wondered if you could shed some information on my situation.
I was a home share provider for about 8 years, prior to this I was a house parent for a young challenged adult for an alternative school in south vancouver.
At this time I was approached by M.F.C. to take a contract as the school was
was not obligating their contract.
By this time I had become very fond of him and empathetic to his behavior and why He did what he did and thought I understood him well.
After a couple years we had moved to Nanaimo, He changed trastically from doing alot of drugs and constant trouble with the police. Here we had none of these activities for about 6 years, then he met this girl who He wanted to live with us, I felt it was a positive relationship and supported it. I was not aware that she had a mental problem of which she had stopped taking medication for and that she had been as a child truamatized by her mothers behavior (totally damaged) and that she was also a heroin addict.
The situation caused me alot of stress and I was working outside the home at nights. I soon found that I was not able to sleep and started to drink 2-3 beer a night to sleep when I got home. I have always been against prescription pills. I had also discussed this with my family doctor as I was being treated for high blood pressure problems.
Then i tried addressing my situation with clbc requesting support or intervention. With in a week my contract was stopped and my client was sent to Carmichle assoc.-as an emergency out reach program as they felt they had no other place to put my client.
So my client who has a few over-lapping disabilities (fas, ocd, adds) as well as low I.Q. was placed into a motel,
The motel is well known here in nanaimo as occupants of drug dealers and users as well as prostritutes and some organized crime people.
Of course my client was only getting about 1 or 2 hours day support from Carmichle assoc. So He felt he had to survive and tried to become friends (his words were to survive).
People were now using him to sell drugs and to collect money from drug users.
He is now in Wilkison jail as he was found by under-cover cops with a replica gun at the motel, charged and sent to jail, this is the second time for this kinda incident.
When I try and advocate for him they say well “He is making alot of bad choices”-which is nothing else people with FAS do, He needs more support then what He is getting. I feel they I hiding behind words to justify their decission making they have done. Of course now the funding amount has changed considerabbly alo lower.
He is a little boy trying to be an adult with out the cognitive skills.

I had been in touch with Leonard Krogg here in nanaimo and met with him and He also felt there was some thing wrong here and visited with CLBC regarding this situation but, have not heard the out-come of that visit.

I also contacted jane? who a govnrment overseer for government programs-she told me her hands are tied and that she is unable to help with this situation??

Can you refer some help or support for this young man, I am trying to get legal support to address CLBC through pro-bono as this is what my friend wants.

Thank you

Bill

Comment on Public Forum on Community Living Cuts by kacy renneberg

kacy renneberg — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:19:28 +0000

I heard the show on the Bill Good Chorus network this morning. A computer program was mentioned for people with dyslexia. I didn’t catch the name of it. Would you be able to e-mail me the name. My girlfriend has two sons with severe dyslexia. Thank you.

Comment on Contact by Preet brar

Preet brar — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 18:42:56 +0000

Hi Raminder Kaur,

Where can i find your email address?

Thank you,

Preet

Comment on Contact by Paddy

Paddy — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 01:22:30 +0000

Hi,

My son is 4 years old next week and has Down Syndrome. He was diagnosed with autism last week. We need to find a behavioural consultant who has experience with both DS and ASD. This would be a longer term arrangement as we need to -create behaviour plans and they would manage the multi-disciplinary team.

Ideally they would live/work in the Maple Ridge area so that travel is minimised – paying for travel will quickly erode my son’s funding.

I would welcome suggestions.

Thank you

Paddy

Comment on Contact by Brenn

Brenn — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:32:06 +0000

In the fall of 2011, after living with his dad for a decade my 15 year old teen (with high functioning Austim, ADD who is a stage three Cancer survivor with one kidney and a heart defect) decided to come and live with me.

As a single parent already living on BC provincial disability(I’m on a cane), I need help finding a parent advocate that can connect me with social resources and perhaps suggestions how to access additional funding beyond the Autism 6K. It’s just not enough money. Any leads would be fantastic.

BTW: His Dad’s child support each month could help pay for the services we need, but the provincial government claws that back dollar for dollar. After our rent is paid, we live on less than 600 a month.

Comment 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

Comment on Contact 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 [email protected] and we will try to connect you to a volunteer parent advocate.

Comment on Contact 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.