Nobody wanted to come in and teach the school, because everyone they contacted kept telling them that this was not something they could learn in just a couple of days, a couple of weeks or even a month. It took more than that. Also, I asked for a transitioning program back into the home. I asked for all of the things that I had been paying for out of my pocket, as everyone agreed that this was working, and is still working, for my son. Applied Behavior Analysis is not a forever program.
Most children can transition out of it after a year.
Children who do not receive this might be placed into an institution, which could cost, perhaps, millions of dollars. People often ask what s the problem, what s going on with the schools, why aren t parents happy, or why are parents fighting with the school systems. I do not necessarily see this as the parent fighting the school or the school fighting the parents, but rather it is a lack of understanding. It is a lack of understanding of what autism is and the fact that when special education teachers attend college, there are no courses on autism. Because the field of autism is such a wide spectrum and there are many different ways and different methods of teaching a child with autism, it is very difficult for the teachers to keep up with the releases of what is going on in the world of autism.