[David Chan]

It's been a long time, but someone go light a candle, burn some incense, what the heck to thank the Supreme being. Yes, Grade 8 is one for the books. Today was the last day of school for Grade 8 students at Mr. P's school.

What do you know, Mr P. won the award for the hardest working kid in Grade 8. There are about 100 grade 8's at his school. He was given the award because he was the kid that showed the most effort. Not the Autistic kid, Not the kid on an IEP, just one of many students that attend the school. He accepted the award in front of the entire student body, faculty and parents.

We are so proud of him. It's hasn't been an easy year, with lots of effort put in by Mr. P, his ABA trained aide, and his home team, We are DONE grade 8. Amen and alleluia

Let you all in on a little secret. When we left our school district lo those many years ago. The principal at the school we left–Mr P. was in the grade 2 at the time. He had this admonition for us." Julia, you will never find the right school, the right teacher, and right kids, that school doesn't exsist"

Well Mr. Principal, Mr. P is winning awards that that non-exisitent school. So and having lunch with those non-existant kids, and getting congratulated and praised by those non-exsistant teachers.

It's never ever the kids that you have to worry about, It's the grown ups.

Again Way to go Mr. P, one year down and four to go.

We Love you Kid, and I know that the whole FEAT community is rooting for you too.

Dave
Mr. P's Dad

[David Chan]

Do you want to gain valuable and hard to find work experience in the
classroom?

We are currently recruiting for our sonâs school position for
September 2006. The position will begin with extensive training on our home program, followed by training and work-experience assisting our son in various community activities and finally, training with our current Educational Assistant within the school setting.

You will receive extensive and ongoing training from our Behavior Consultant

The Candidate:
? able to work independently and as a team
? reliable, eager to learn, able to take constructive feedback and implement it immediately
? FUN!
? Sports experience an asset but not required

The Position:
? A 34 hour position (5x 6.0 hr school days + 2x 2 hour after school shifts); Pay determined and provided through our school; home based program pay determined by experience
? Attending a bi-weekly staff meetings and home consults
? Producing data based reports for analysis by our Behavior Consultant

? Working within the classroom to assist our son where necessary
? REQUIREMENT: a commitment until July 2007
? One or two weekly shifts within our home, academic programs and assisting as necessary in various sports

The Location:
? In East Vancouver, start time 8:15 a.m.
? School position takes place at a Co-educational Catholic high School
? Our IEP is designed by our Consultant and fully supported by our school
? Additional shift hours occur in our home and in the community

Part time training to occur as soon as possible, based on your schedule. Hours will increase in May/June and again in July.

Please send a resume and cover letter discussing your qualifications to neatpix@shaw.ca. We welcome all applicants, including those with little or no training in the field! We are looking for just the right person, experience is not required as training is provided.

[David Chan]

Excellent opportunity

Wanted: ABA-trained S.E.A.
(Special Education Assistant)

This is an excellent opportunity to work with a fourteen-year old student who has been on an ABA program since 1997. Student is enrolled in and an independent high school in East Vancouver. He is enrolled in regular academic classes, and participates in all school activities. Position is full time. Training will commence immediately, with overlap beginning after spring break in the school. Successful candidate would also work one shift per week on the home ABA team.

We ask for a minimum commitment of one academic year ending June of 2007. Remuneration is commensurate with public school.

Please forward resume to neatpix@shaw.ca
Or contact David @ 604 831 4228

[David Chan]

Excellent opportunity

Wanted: ABA-trained S.E.A.
(Special Education Assistant)

This is an excellent opportunity to work with a fourteen-year old student who has been on an ABA program since 1997. Student is enrolled in and an independent high school in East Vancouver. He is enrolled in regular academic classes, and participates in all school activities. Position is full time. Training will commence immediately, with overlap beginning after spring break in the school. Successful candidate would also work one shift per week on the home ABA team.

We ask for a minimum commitment of one academic year ending June of 2007. Remuneration is commensurate with public school.

Please forward resume to neatpix@shaw.ca
Or contact David @ 604 831 4228

[David Chan]

Dear Kathy,

As the mother of a 14-year old who's been through"the ringer", by far and away your best bet is West Vancouver. They have a different union (not CUPE) so that the needs of the child are put above the needs of the union.. However, I must caution you that you should have a clear cut protocol that works with your child, and ask that this protocol be used in school. Otherwise the school will just do whatever they think is best (Yikes!)

I had difficulty telling from your post whether your son has a Lovaas-ABA consultant or not. If not, you should retain the services of a consultant to design a program &/or behaviour intervention protocols specifically for your child. Once this is up and running at home, have your consultant meet with the appropriate school staff to discuss your son's needs at school, and how the home program can be applied to school and vice versa. If they're not willing to do this, your son will not have a successful year.

Again, there are no guarantees in this life, but West Van is your best bet. We went the independent school route with our son, but that's a lot more costly and also carries no guarantee of success.

Hope this was helpful, and best of luck to you.

Julia
mom of Mr. P

[David Chan]

Julia my ever so clever wife had this great idea, so this way I won't get accused of interlecual property theft yet again. OK now that we got the legals out of the way. Here is the idea.

We set up and account on MSN for Mr. P, got a bunch of his friends hotmail addresses as well. so we start to have them have conversations using MSN instant messenger. We don't use video, just typing.

he's done it a couple of times now, and what's happened is that it allows him time to proccess info, and respond, plus, you can be right next to him prompting, and the other party won't see the prompting which makes it a lot easier than a face to face conversation, when you are trying to prompt him.

The other part of the idea, is to print out the convesation transcript, that's easy to do, and let him role play himself to practice conversation.

the other really cool part is that MSN instant messenger is very age appropiate for him as a teenager, so, more social acceptance

Give it a try, and see what you guys think

Dave
Mr. P's dad, and yes it was Julia's idea

Best of the season everyone

[David Chan]

Thank you jennifer for keeping our eyes on the ball. We need to savor those victories. Severe, mild, it just doesn't matter. A win, is a win. We always want just a little more, and yes I know that heart pounding feeling.

We like to think about this always….

I'm not sure, but I think it was Browning…remember I have ESL issues

"A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for"

keep up the great work
Thanks again Jennifer

Dave
Mr. P's Dad

[David Chan]

Hi

If there is a someone on the board that can speak and write in punjabi, please contact me via email neatpix@shaw.ca

There is some urgency, so if you could respond promptly, it would be appreciated

Thanx
Dave
Mr. P's Dad

[David Chan]

HI

If there is any parent who can do typsetting in punjabi, please contact me via email ASAP
neatpix@shaw.ca

Dave
Mr. P's Dad

[David Chan]

I got to share this with everyone, last night was Halloween, and it took a long time before Mr. P got into the Holiday. This Kid hated Halloween because of the firecrakers. And you had to go out in thedark. Well, this year he harrassed us within an inch of our lives to be spock. OK, spock it is then. We looked all over for the right shirt, but we wound up at Dunbar Costumes, and we rented him the shirt, and bought a set of ears.

After school came, and we were all getting ready to go trick or treating, while we were wating for Miss V to get ready, Mr. P said to me, hey dad, this shirt needs to have the star trek sign on it, he was right, it didin't come with the star trek logo on the shirt. In any case, he kept on saying it, and I"m like oh please, this will have to do, it's a rented costume for gosh sake. I turn around, and to my horror he's gone and used a permanent marker, and drew the star trek logo on the shirt. At this point I didn't know whether to jump for joy because he connected so well the shirt with the logo, or be furious because he had just drawn on a rental costume.
So with great reluctance, I took the costume back to the shop, and I told the lady the story. She stopped, and said, "Did he really enjoy Halloween ?" I assured her, and expressed how he really did get it this year. "She said to me, well, if he really enjoyed it, let him keep it", I was almost moved to tears.

You know, there are decent people in the world, I just met one of them

Mr.P's Dad

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