The Education System

I know very little about the way the Education System works other than there are private and public schools and my boys had very difficult experiences in both.  What I do know though is that children with FASD will continue to have difficult, soul destroying stays in our education system until we ackowledge that not all children diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, Aspergers or Autism indeed have those conditions.  Children with the latter two may get the attention and have appropriate strategies put into place for them, but children with the former two who according to American research, statistically may instead have FASD, will NOT be the best they can be unless they are diagnosed correctly and appropriate strategies put into place for them.  There are so many people I have interviewed and spoken to who believe that many of the children in Special Ed classess have undiagnosed FASD.  There are also many children in mainstream classess who make the teacher’s and other student’s life very difficult who have undiagnosed FASD.  But what we dont always understand, is that these poor children, who dont know why they are doing the things they do, who are ostracised, bullied, derided and are constantly in trouble, would feel so much better about themselves if they were diagnosed correctly.  My children are living proof of this. Please Education Department and Federal Government, please look at FASD as a serious issue in our schools.  One that will NOT go away by ignoring it.  The children who have FASD and ‘misbehave’ in school are the children who end up in our prison system or our welfare system – why?  Because they are undiagnosed and no one knows they have a brain injury – least of all – themselves.

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