Can you have both intervention and inclusion? How do you get everyone on the same page...medical staff, therapists, teachers, etc...? Who do you believe? What philosophy do you adopt? How do you prioritize when you have so many things to work on?
Weston NEEDS both intervention (maybe even intense) and inclusion! BUT...he has pockets of skills and holes in all areas of his development...Have we missed out on correcting some of his deficits because we have a mix of diagnosis and only came to look at autism so late in the game?
ABA has helped us look at his behavior and ours and certainly things have improved but we still have such a long way to go in many areas including compliance. While early intervention has helped Weston to continue to make small gains, I wonder if it also developed some bad habits in the way he responds to prompts, etc. Must we start at the very beginning of everything again in order for him to "get" stuff...or can we find a way to fill in the holes and take advantage of what he does know and what he is interested in? I think this is who he is...can we find a way to bridge his knowledge of sports with how to communicate socially?
Some days I think I need an expert in autism, ABA, and apraxia.
Some days I think Weston just needs to hang with his friends and be a boy without the baggage of therapy, homework, seizures, procedures, etc
Some days I think Weston's best chance is to take a "sabbatical" with one of the "best-of-the-bests" (whoever that might be and how do I find that person) and spend a year in intense educational, social, communication therapy and then "re-enter" the inclusive world.
I wish the answer was clear...
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