Comments 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.

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

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

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.

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 [email protected] 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