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ditto. I've wanted to do that for a very long time, but he's just not into the idea at all... so now I'm going to school for psychology. Want to work with kids. Autism fascinates me, and I want to do clinical research. I wouldn't mind helping other kids who need couseling, but my passion is autism.
You may want to look at shelters. Domestic violence shelters often need volunteers for child advocates. Sometimes these kids see things and are just as affect as adults, they are often too small to say, "hey I'm a victim too". So that may be a place to start.
what kinds of things are you looking to help with? I'm great at matching people with certain skills to certain areas, it's part of my job as well!!
So, I'm curious as to why you went psychology over special education with an autism specialty?
lmao. yep. mine was all for whatever dhs wanted and never listened to me like they are supposed to. it took my annoying my lawyer to get what I needed.
My aunt was a foster child. My grandparents never actually adopted her. The state never terminated her mom's rights - but her mom was in an institution for the insane for killing her little brother. For her 18th birthday she asked to have her name changed legally.
That's actually best case. My husband has an aunt that was a foster parent and got 2 very much abused children. By the time the parents started trying to get the two kids back, Carollee (The aunt) had fallen in love with them. Took her two years and a lot of pain to officially adopt the two boys, but she did it. And boy are their lives great.
SoCal Meet up!!!!!
sat. october 16th @3:00pm at Scarcella's Italian Grill in temecula, ca.
sat. october 16th @3:00pm at Scarcella's Italian Grill in temecula, ca.
Sallana: what about looking for a program where they teach parenting skills?
I want to be more on the research end of things. I wouldn't mind working in a clinic doing counseling, but I want to learn more of the neuropsychological aspects of the disease. I want to be able to also help them through behavior modification, and learning life skills. I think that I can help more effectively in a one on one setting than I could in a classroom setting. 20+ special ed kids may mean 1 autistic kid in this area. Which is a good thing, but wouldn't fulfill my passion.
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My friends' just finalized the adoption of a brother and sister who have been in the system for all but 6 months of their lives. They have 4 birth children of their own and are only 32 yrs old. (Not old like me lol) So now they have 6. Thankfully this kids were very little when went into the system and the majority of their placements were good. The day the judge terminated they ran to the lawyer to start the paperwork since the b-mom had 30 days to appeal. It was filed on the 31st day.
So many kids out there...(shakes head) think on it Sallana: you'll know where you are pulled and when the time to act is. Maybe baby steps first. You have to take care of you and yours first.
too far south for me.. need one in the san jaoquin valley....
They do have North Cal meetings...though I dont know details.
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YES! Teaching or working with parents. Stopping the cycle.
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YES! Teaching or working with parents. Stopping the cycle.
That is not a bad idea. I wonder what credentials you need to do something like that. I imagine its not a volunteer job, and you'd need some sort of certification if not a college teaching degree.
Ah, makes some sense to me. Although, very few folks with a research-focused PhD in special education head back to the classroom. Most end up doing research and/or teaching future teachers.
So are you wanting to do more clinical type treatment or more research? From my vantage point, it seems like the ones doing the research and developing new treatments aren't necessarily in clinical practice. In fact, most of the folks I work with have RAs to do all the actual interventions while they design the intervention and analyze the results. Oh, and get the grant dollars to keep the research going.
Heh, hate to break it to you, but there really isn't a good college teaching degree out there. Most professors receive little to no training in the act of teaching. The perception is that their depth of knowledge allows for exemplary teaching skills. I'm not sure I agree but it is the perception. Sad part is that very, very few college teachers/professors have any background/knowledge in adult learning theory. Some have K-12 classroom experience but pedagogy (teaching children) isn't the same as andragogy (teaching adults).
I'm not certain but I believe that a lot of the folks teaching parents parenting skills are either social workers or child psychologist types. I know that a friend of mine, who is a social worker, was moonlighting doing that.
ideally I would do both clinical and research, use what I'm learning and observing in the clinic and apply it to research. That's the goal. I may find fulfillment in becoming a behavioral specialist. There are a lot of options, and to be honest, in this economy, I'll do just about whatever I can to get my foot it the door.
In theory I see no reason why you couldn't. I could be wrong though. I guess between being able to get free TI regulators and the simplicity of some of the 5V tutorials available I never saw a reason to chance anything I wasn't certain about. boB
any pg allergy peeps here? At one point I found a site about asthma inhalers and pg allergy. And I am almost sure the proair hfa inhaler was on that list and my sons dr prescribed it for him . Anyone know where I can find that?
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