Mother seeks DOE assistance for son with autism - News 12 Connecticut

A section parent is hopeless for assistance from the city’s Department of Education arsenic her teenage lad with autism has been struggling with outbursts. 

Christie Santiago-Holmes says past year, she got 19 calls from her son’s schoolhouse asking to prime him up. Aumari Holmes, 13, has terrible autism, and according to his individualized acquisition plan, oregon IEP, it tin pb to self-injurious behavior. 

Santiago-Holmes received a telephone past Tuesday that her son’s astir caller outburst sent him to the psychiatric exigency country astatine Jacobi Hospital, causing her to question the District 75 peculiar needs school’s quality to grip her son.  

“If you don’t cognize however to grip him successful that school, past assistance maine get him into a non-public school,” said Santiago-Holmes. “Stop warring me.” 

The acrophobic parent is pushing to person her precocious school-bound lad transferred to a state-approved non-public school, but these are much restrictive and bash not let peculiar needs students to larn alongside peers without disabilities, similar Aumari is capable to bash astatine his existent school.  

A spokesperson from the DOE told News 12 the pursuing statement: 

“Our extremity is to spot each pupil successful the astir supportive and least-restrictive situation possible. Parents and guardians cognize their children best, and they are with america each measurement of the way." 

The parent is acceptable to conscionable with the schoolhouse adjacent week to re-evaluate Aumari’s needs.