Aidan the Hero
Feb. 12th, 2011 01:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kimber_mcleodLuckily, it would appear Aidan hasn't gotten to that "not talking to my parents" stage yet. She's been quite a bit more talkative lately, actually. She comes in and plops down on me and tells me all about her day, which is nice in a listening to 9 year old girl stuff kind of way.
Anyway, she's been telling me about this kid in her class named Ben. They don't tell kids in a classroom when one of the other kids has a disability, which in one way is fine. But for kids like Ben, who has a rather severe form of autism and has a full time aide in the classroom, it can cause more problems than just explaining things to the kids would do. When kids with severe disabilities that aren't obvious, like being in a wheel chair or being blind, display the functions of this disability, other kids will assume the kid is "just weird". Ben has behavioral and impulse control issues as well as communication issues and these things are very common with children with autism. It's why Ben has an aide.
Now the other kids started this game called "Ben Touch" which is basically cooties only it starts with poor lil Ben. Aidan has been telling me about it and how she doesn't think it's nice and I talked with her about it a bit and agreed. We've talked before about how if kids are being mean or harassing her on the playground she can go to a teacher and tell them and the teacher can address the problem without telling the kids involved who told her. So the day before yesterday Aidan comes plopping on me and says she talked to her teacher about Ben Touch and some of the things the other kids say about Ben. She said she's been sitting next to Ben and talking to him to be nice and when she got to help the teachers grade papers one day Aidan graded Ben's and she saw he's actually very smart. She said she finally decided somebody had to do something because it wasn't nice for Ben even if he doesn't get what the other kids are doing.
So the teacher had a talk with the class today about Ben Touch and the other things kids were saying about him and Aidan said no one played Ben Touch today, anyway. It may not last, but I am just fit to bust proud of my baby girl. I'm sure having Ian for a big brother is a help, she's grown up around someone with autism so she's used to some of the things, but she took the initiative to do something to help someone else. That's all her, bless her little divalishous heart. I told her she was an Awesomecicle and a Hero for Ben. She's my Hero too. :D
Anyway, she's been telling me about this kid in her class named Ben. They don't tell kids in a classroom when one of the other kids has a disability, which in one way is fine. But for kids like Ben, who has a rather severe form of autism and has a full time aide in the classroom, it can cause more problems than just explaining things to the kids would do. When kids with severe disabilities that aren't obvious, like being in a wheel chair or being blind, display the functions of this disability, other kids will assume the kid is "just weird". Ben has behavioral and impulse control issues as well as communication issues and these things are very common with children with autism. It's why Ben has an aide.
Now the other kids started this game called "Ben Touch" which is basically cooties only it starts with poor lil Ben. Aidan has been telling me about it and how she doesn't think it's nice and I talked with her about it a bit and agreed. We've talked before about how if kids are being mean or harassing her on the playground she can go to a teacher and tell them and the teacher can address the problem without telling the kids involved who told her. So the day before yesterday Aidan comes plopping on me and says she talked to her teacher about Ben Touch and some of the things the other kids say about Ben. She said she's been sitting next to Ben and talking to him to be nice and when she got to help the teachers grade papers one day Aidan graded Ben's and she saw he's actually very smart. She said she finally decided somebody had to do something because it wasn't nice for Ben even if he doesn't get what the other kids are doing.
So the teacher had a talk with the class today about Ben Touch and the other things kids were saying about him and Aidan said no one played Ben Touch today, anyway. It may not last, but I am just fit to bust proud of my baby girl. I'm sure having Ian for a big brother is a help, she's grown up around someone with autism so she's used to some of the things, but she took the initiative to do something to help someone else. That's all her, bless her little divalishous heart. I told her she was an Awesomecicle and a Hero for Ben. She's my Hero too. :D
