05-18-2014, 06:15 PM
UK, I am glad to hear the working with the supervisor allowed your son to continue.
Based on your follow up that your son was able to continue to participate, it sounds like the facility employee created a solution that was not supported by the facility nor the supervisor, most likely this was a very unfortunate response to complaints by some of the older club members that had arrived just prior to you.
I have worked with children with varied abilities, both SPED classrooms & in sports (here & mainland) and have worked with children with various forms of Augsbergers. As long as your child was not at risk of injury/ing or damaging equipment and he was following all of the facility rules, there should have been no exclusionary actions taken.
In a well functioning world, if actions that caused the members to have their concentration broken also did not comply with the facility rules, the employee should have tried to work with you & your son to create a plan...unfortunately, many facility employees are not well trained for compliance issues like you raise.
When I was working within the Hilo Complex schools, I was teaching one child with Augsberger that had an individual aide that worked with him, most of this individual work was on gaining social/instruction cues. This student also had an aide off school hours (after school & Saturdays) that allowed the student to participate, more fully, in extracurricular activities.
There are services like special needs extracurricular aides, if your son qualifies for one to fully participate in this club, it may be worth investigating.
It also may be that you can hire an older (slightly or elderly...based on your sons needs) club mentor that can help him monitor social/instruction cues while both are active in the club. This also may help you.
Based on your follow up that your son was able to continue to participate, it sounds like the facility employee created a solution that was not supported by the facility nor the supervisor, most likely this was a very unfortunate response to complaints by some of the older club members that had arrived just prior to you.
I have worked with children with varied abilities, both SPED classrooms & in sports (here & mainland) and have worked with children with various forms of Augsbergers. As long as your child was not at risk of injury/ing or damaging equipment and he was following all of the facility rules, there should have been no exclusionary actions taken.
In a well functioning world, if actions that caused the members to have their concentration broken also did not comply with the facility rules, the employee should have tried to work with you & your son to create a plan...unfortunately, many facility employees are not well trained for compliance issues like you raise.
When I was working within the Hilo Complex schools, I was teaching one child with Augsberger that had an individual aide that worked with him, most of this individual work was on gaining social/instruction cues. This student also had an aide off school hours (after school & Saturdays) that allowed the student to participate, more fully, in extracurricular activities.
There are services like special needs extracurricular aides, if your son qualifies for one to fully participate in this club, it may be worth investigating.
It also may be that you can hire an older (slightly or elderly...based on your sons needs) club mentor that can help him monitor social/instruction cues while both are active in the club. This also may help you.