What is Down Syndrome
Down syndrome or trisomy 21 is a genetic condition resulting from the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. Down syndrome is characterized by a combination of major ...
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hello,
my little cousin is 7and has down syndrome. When he is at skool and out at recess andits time to come in he hides under the slide and they have to get a male teacher to get him. They wantto sent him to another school and my aunt doesnt no watto do he gets into everthing andis driveing her crazy. Also he is starting to tell the teachers to shut up and he throws his papers on the floor and he is saying lots of other words. Has anyone else experexced this if so please e-mail me @ kitten_2013 DOt com Posted on 10/28/09, 05:10 pm |
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Welcome and I am so glad to see you on here. What a supportive cousin you are and a support to your aunt too. I see that you're in Iowa. Im in MN, the twin cities in fact, we're neighbors. My daughter is now 18. She went through a stage where she was testing her independence. Looks like that is what your cousin is trying to do. Our kids with down's have so little control over their lives that when they can get to do something and its taken away they rebel. They desperately want to be able to make some decisions themselves in the choices in their lives. For Hannah I always gave her plenty of time for switching activities. It never worked if I came up to her and said time to go now. I always had to give her notices. I would start 15 before we needed to go in. Then I would say its 10 minutes then 5 minutes and so on. By that time she had it in her head that she needed to go inside and she had adjusted to it. At least most of the time. You and your aunt will find that you will probably have to shake things up a bit and change your tactics to get him inside.
As regards to school your aunt should have an IEP in place. Hopefully she knows about this. If not she can google it and Im sure there is some office in Iowa that can help her or your cousin's social worker. But anything she puts in the IEP by law has to be followed by the staff at school. Like she can put in there that your cousin needs notices to allow him to give him time to adjust to a change in activities. She can put anything in there that she wants, anything to help with his behaviors. Also if there are medical concerns or eating concerns, speech, and of course his schooling. Hope this helps. Take care Kris 
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