Day 10

Back to Monday! For all but one of our students it was a great day. In reading this morning, the child who has Autism did much better than she had at the beginning of last week. She transitioned better, but not as well as she did Friday. Transitions become especially hard for her when she has not finished what she was doing. She doesn't always understand the concept of come back to it. After an extra explanation from me, she went and acted like she understood. When I got back to the resource room, I discovered a child who was completely noncompliant and rather defiant. Last year they said they had the same problem, but were able to fix it within the first week with a behavior contract and slow transition into his new room. Because of how things have been handled up until now, he has not been able to make this transition. His IEP states behavioral problems which he made clear today. While he was in the room with myself, my ST, and the Title 1 teachre (office in our room), he tried to escape, threw pencils, ripped paper, refused to eat, almost knocked over a filing cabinet, but knocked stuff of it, and was defiant in all things. It wasn't until about 3:15 that we were able to get him clamed down enough to talk about a behavior contract. He refused and refused, and when his mother came in they were able to talk to her and 15 minutes later, he finally signed it, working out a deal with the teacher. By mid day he was more in a power struggle rather than just refusing to do work. Hopefully with this contract we will be able to get him back on track, otherise he may be staying in 6th grade for another year.