Back to School and “Learning Years”
School for Monty, aged 11 with ASD, did start a couple of weeks ago but then a nasty virus swept through school, sending him back home again. To recap, Monty attends a very small mainstream international school with his own assistant. The school uses the English system. To get the equivalent US grade, you subtract one from the English year. He comes home after lunch and then has one-to-one, ABA-inspired, home schooling for another three hours. In school holidays he has eight hours a day of ABA-inspired one-to-one home program. This has been going on for seven years so far. Following all these years of ABA, schooling at home and 20 months of his PolyPill he is now able to learn at school, follow the rules and interact with staff and other children. He now initiates play with the other kids. When his assistant leaves at 2pm, the teachers now want him to stay by himself for afternoon classes like art and physical education. This is quite a ch...