A recovery plan for pandemic learning losses

 

The return to school will look a little different this year after a year filled with uncertainty and new routines. While you may be returning to a more typical school year, the transition away from established pandemic guidelines may present challenges, and we may have to remain flexible about changes in guidelines throughout the school year. 

COVID-19 relief package passed in March of this year, includes $3 billion in dedicated funding for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) programs. The $3 billion allocated to IDEA will go a long way in easing the financial burdens felt by schools and helping them meet their service to students with autism and other disabilities.

Talk to your school leadership about the funding your district received as part of this plan and how they will be using it to help your child make up for disrupted learning or lost skills over the last school year.

Don’t forget as a parents you have the right to call a meeting with your child’s IEP team to discuss how your child’s goals will change in order to make up for lost time, or a regression in skills, knowledge or behavior. Prepare for the meeting by writing out how you feel the pandemic impacted your child’s education, as well as things the team may be able to do to help get back on track. As your child’s go back to school meet with IEP team, you can be your child’s advocate to help focus on recovering any lost skills or learning that your child experienced with the pandemic.

It is important to be realistic and remember that despite all your best efforts, change may not happen immediately. It will take time for your child to readjust to school and regain some of their lost. But patience and collaboration with the IEP team, in time your child can continue making progress toward reaching their full potential.  I am working on this for Brad because the school get funding 

If you need additional information and resources help you prepare, check out my website at www.livebeyondautism.com am here to help in anyway 

Back to School and COVID-19

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My Back to School and  COVID-19

What was once a place to sleep, eat, home is now also a place to call school due to a worldwide pandemic. Are students, teachers, and parents ready to incorporate school as their virtual reality at home? I have never experienced something like this in my life. This is going down in history as the best test of strength all over the world.

I think the new school setting is the change we need in order to keep everyone safe. Online classes may create new challenges for students but is a safer route to continue education instead of potentially contracting this deadly virus. My thoughts are that kids will have a deeper understanding of technology and how important socialization is. This is the time that families have to be stronger than ever. Parents will have to become teachers, students will have to learn self-discipline, and teachers will be put to the test on their technological abilities while instructing classes.

The world is experiencing this pandemic in many stressful ways. With an unstable household, I can’t imagine the difficulties and struggles that particular students will be presented with while school is mandatory to attend at home.What can students who have a crowded and distracting household do to concentrate on their online classes? I hope obstacles at home can access and to maintain academic stability.

We have to stay strong  Livebeyondautism 

Being a working mom is difficult

 

Being a working mom is difficult. full time working mom is hard. You have to figure out a way to balance all of your household duties, children, husband and anything else that’s tossed at you, all the while making a living for your family. 

Working too much are not too much has become quite popular for moms who have autism kids but still need to make money. I would love to work as home moms so that i can truly learn quicker ways to manage it all and have time to help my son with reading doing math and have me some me time. just that moments. I could do better making sche

MAKE A SCHEDULE

The key to having more time in the day as a work from home mom is to make a schedule and stick to it! Using a block schedule where you assign specific times of the day to various tasks, including your work tasks, will help you stay on track with work and other duties so as long as you hold yourself accountable to not stray from this schedule and if you must stray slightly, make it a good reason. this is why I would love to work from home 

work from home are going in the office are doing both what are the best choice www.livebeyondautism.com

best support moms of autism son

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 When my son got his autism diagnosis, one of the first things I needed was support. And one of the first things I did? I started looking for resources in my area however there was no support. The only support was me and my husband on how to create and nurture a strong support system. As a parent of an autism  child, this was one of the most important things I could have done. So now, I want to share this to the world and  with everyone our journey.

As a mom we often see what we want to see, but the true is we have to fight for our kids to get support help and to understand our child needs but not always, we are one who holds the family together.

Mom and dad  is the strong foundation for our kids, we are the glue. We are the keeper of the family. We are the caregiver. We are also the provider or the breadwinner. 

And guess what… Am still struggling. And may not always recognize it this is for real. I may not always say it aloud. I  may not always ask for help.

But am still struggling.to fine help for my son

The sleepless nights.

 tears eyes .

 constant worries.

Still outward but I have to maintain strong.

I  insist  myself that I can handle autism.

When you ask me I may tell you that nothing is wrong. 

Some days, it may be difficult for us to get to put it out there that we need help for son especially the meltdown his anxiety not to mention ADHD but we have to keep pushing for our boy.

He is a good kids but Florida especially the county that am in doesn’t help much I have learned Encouragement strengthen labor.

Some nights, we may not sleep.

Some moments, I may wonder if it’s all going to work out.

We still struggling. But we have to stay strong. And we will get through this.

How do I know?

Because I am that mom.

Because I know.

Because I struggled. 

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Aggressive behaviors

 

Aggressive behaviors are one of the biggest struggles that parents of Autism  children face, but unfortunately, we have  to “eliminate the behavior”. 

The problem is, aggression in Autism  children isn’t as simple as them misbehaving, and some  tactics are actually likely to make the aggression worse.

See, Autism  children are never aggressive for no reason.

But just because they have a reason doesn’t mean that we can just ignore the aggression and hope it goes away.

Steps to Deal with Aggression in Autism Children

If you’re dealing with aggression from your Autism  child, it can be easy to feel completely defeated.

Traditional parenting strategies aren’t working.

You know that your child’s aggression isn’t their fault, but you’re also getting concerned about the safety of your other kids or those your child is hurting.

Before you can truly handle your child’s aggression in public we need to check  assumptions. 

Ultimately we want to stop the aggression before it happens of course, but until then we need a plan for how we will handle aggression when it happens. So how do you handle aggressive behavior with your kids

• Hitting?
• Kicking?
• Scratching?
• Pushing? 
• Pulling Hair? 
• These are some of my best ways to keep people safe during aggression are:
• Separate by removing other people from the aggressive child
• Redirect by directing the aggression to an object rather than a person
• So tell me your best way to keep others safe during and outburst

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Morning and school

For some people, leaving the house is as easy as opening the front door and stepping outside. For autism  kids is extra challenges. 

I am asking autism  perent what a typical morning trying to leave the house felt like: 

"My morning is going up and down, sometimes good sometimes it’s a mess a hole lot of mess I have to plan a head so I can try to have a smooth morning and out the door  and all is good with a lot of work. Then you realize that you have to go out. Suddenly time goes in slow and fast motion all at once. It doesn’t matter at that moment leaving the house could be something you are looking forward to or dreading. It is the action of having to leave the house that is Then comes the need to run through your route to get where you are going. This can be anxiety. 

You realize that somehow you have now lost lots of time and before you realize it you are suddenly running late. You can’t leave the house without following certain procedures and now you have your child telling you that they  are going to be late for school and mommy you need to hurry up. Only if he know he is the one actually make you late This doesn’t help because now there is an extra layer of anxiety which you are unable to process and will most likely respond in some type of a way. 

 before leaving the house I try to end the  battling with Brad so I don’t get the meltdown. " 

So when schools give awards to students for being punctual, and punish those who are late, what they are actually doing for those diagnosed with autism diagnosis is punishing them for having a disability. 

If schools welcomed autism  children with warmth and congratulated them for making it there, they would feel far more accepted and worthy. Their self esteem would be higher and they would work harder. 

Attendance and punctuation with autism kids is very hard to get them though that door every morning can be a challenge so rewards your self when you get your kids to school on time 

So let me know how you get though the door every morning with a AUTISM ADHD AND HIGH LEVEL  anxiety child may be your routine could help me are someone else 

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Beyond brad Measure

 Like so many special needs parents, I’ve spent  hours filling out paperwork and rating scales about  brad. 

what it feels like to anxiously wait in doctor offices, therapy lobbies, and school conference rooms…to go over the results of various assessments for my son. I’ve left meetings, only to replay the conversations in my head, trying to stay positive and put the negative  behind me. 

my son, Brad, is a strong kid . My son’s diagnosis alone is defined by a number, Level of  Autism spectrum Very verbal Anxiety ADHD After every doctors appointment  for my son, I immediately ask myself why it hurts so deeply to hear the numbers things that’s wrong instead of getting them fix.

It’s not my first time hearing it, I’ve heard it all before.

 I know by now what to expect in these meetings, and I try to mentally prepare myself for days leading up. 

It is soul crushing and takes my breath away each and every time. 

My husband and I love Brad  more than anyone on this Earth, but the school the phone called the list goes on and on we receives on evaluations day by day will never change that. 

Yet, I hurt  each time, after hearing them.I spend so many times reverting back to the stage of special needs parenting, and that is a hard place to be. 

Then after time, I manage to find my way back again. I remind myself that what matters the most about my son can’t be measured. 

 Brad  is a true medical miracle twice over. He entered this world via 32 weeks V&D just decided to come early. By the time I entered the delivery room I was already 5 cm there is no turning back doctors and nurses all worked together. 

I can still hear the doctors and nurse’s voice  that said, “We are trying everything but he can’t eat are breath at the same time.” Brad first days on Earth were spent in a NICU. 

At the age of 2, he took a hard turned his fever was over a 100 rush to the hospital Emergency room. He survived but ended up in NICU with two cases of bad virus . A doctor look at us me and my husband he’s not going home tonight.

There are no rating scales, IQ tests, or assessments that can measure the strength, and fight my brad  has inside. He is the bravest child I know.Brad  love for the simple things in life…So for all the negative feedback. No helps for my child constantly calling therapist,Tutoring, Am trying to stay positive for some hope.

  In Philippians 4:6-7 don’t be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known to God Here's the best road map I can give you when you want to learn ho to God and let go:

1. Realize you're human and you don't have all the control, no matter how awesome and capable you are.
2. Take a moment. ...
3. Admit that you don't have to have all the answers, all the time. ...
4. Take a deep breath.
5. Pray. ...
6. Let.

the be Here's the best road map I can give you when you want to learn how to surrender to God and let go:

1. Realize you're human and you don't have all the control, no matter how awesome and capable you are.
2. Take a moment. ...
3. Admit that you don't have to have all the answers, all the time. ...
4. Take a deep breath.
5. Pray. ...
6. Let.

st road map I can give you when you want to learn how to surrender to God and let go:

1. Realize you're human and you don't have all the control, no matter how awesome and capable you are.
2. Take a moment. ...
3. Admit that you don't have to have all the answers, all the time. ...
4. Take a deep breath.
5. Pray. ...
6. Let.

Here's the best road map I can give you when you want to learn how to surrender to God and let go:

1. Realize you're human and you don't have all the control, no matter how awesome and capable you are.
2. Take a moment. ...
3. Admit that you don't have to have all the answers, all the time. ...
4. Take a deep breath.
5. Pray. ...
6. Let.

Brad very first plane ride

 

Traveling with your family can be fun. If you’re going far, you may decide to take an airplane. You may feel scared about flying in a plane. But it’s safe and really cool! My routine for Brad very first ride 

Here’s what happens when you fly on an airplane with my boy that have autism . 

1 Getting to the airport on time . 

2 Checking in. Once you get to the airport, you check in for your flight. You give your name, 

3. Going through security. Once you have your boarding pass 

4. Going to the gate and waiting for your flight. Now it’s time to go to the gate. 

5. Boarding (getting on) the plane. When your plane is ready, the airport worker makes an announcement over the loud speaker. You get in line 

6. Finding your seat. Your seat number is on your boarding pass. 

7. Finding the bathroom. The bathroom on the plane is smaller than you bathroom at home. 

8. Getting ready for takeoff. Flight attendants are on the plane to help take care of you during the flight. 

9. During the flight.You can read, color, play with small toys or even use a phone or tablet while you’re flying. Your phone or tablet has to be in airplane mode — your mom or dad can help you with that. 

10. Landing. The pilot and flight attendants tell you when it’s time to land. You put your toys away for landing and make sure your seatbelt is buckled. After you land, you may have to wait a few minutes to get off the plane.  This was Brad 1th flight and I have to go though these steps with him because it’s is hard for autism ADHD child to stay focus #autism #travelingwithkids #theflightattendant #livebeyondautism