CWC and Therapy - Would It Have Worked?

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Do You Think Early Therapy Would Have Worked For CWC?

  • Yes

    Votes: 57 29.7%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 86 44.8%

  • No

    Votes: 49 25.5%
  • Total voters
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I have to say yes it would have helped but with the caveat, if he was caught young enough and had a better exterior support mechanism. After the age of 10 or 11 he was doomed but even then he could have wound up a lot better than he is now till he was about 15 or so.

The problem is It's hard to judge how much of Chris is down to the Tisim and how much that's influenced by other problems he has. Chris can't just be explained abut Autism in isolation even with the drag factor of Barb (an to a lesser extent bob) he's got other things that get ignored or glossed over by the elephant in the room.

Marvin said:
They were OK with therapy. They just didn't want Chris to go to a special school.

They had Chris in speech therapy and coping classes elsewhere.
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I've always been interested in how much of that was because they couldn't avoid it, and how much of it was out of a genuine desire to help Chris.

I can kinda understand why they where totally agenst sending Chris to a "Special School" as to them that was just short of "babys first insane asylum" and to be honest during there child hoods they where, but in the 80's an 90's they where far from it and where really happy to show the family around to dispel any myths and preconceptions they might have had about them.
 
Ravenor said:
I've always been interested in how much of that was because they couldn't avoid it, and how much of it was out of a genuine desire to help Chris.

I can kinda understand why they where totally agenst sending Chris to a "Special School" as to them that was just short of "babys first insane asylum" and to be honest during there child hoods they where, but in the 80's an 90's they where far from it and where really happy to show the family around to dispel any myths and preconceptions they might have had about them.
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Well, I don't think they would try to avoid the special classes. I don't think it cost them anything. They knew Chris would need help. They just didn't want to give up control.
 
Clintonberg said:
How do you think Chris would have fared without access to the internet?
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Less paranoid, but that's about it - He wouldn't also have gone trender.

Marvin said:
Well, I don't think they would try to avoid the special classes. I don't think it cost them anything. They knew Chris would need help. They just didn't want to give up control.
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That's interesting, has he ever mentioned anything about that? i.e. mum / dad said XYZ was to much or expensive etc to you even in passing?
 
Ravenor said:
That's interesting, has he ever mentioned anything about that? i.e. mum / dad said XYZ was to much or expensive etc to you even in passing?
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Not that I recall.

The coping classes probably would've been provided through the public schools, as a part of regular special education. So that would've been free. The speech therapy classes were at JMU and might've cost money, but we don't know much about that. If it cost money, Chris has never relayed any Borb complaints about it to any trolls.
 
Marvin said:
Not that I recall.

The coping classes probably would've been provided through the public schools, as a part of regular special education. So that would've been free. The speech therapy classes were at JMU and might've cost money, but we don't know much about that. If it cost money, Chris has never relayed any Borb complaints about it to any trolls.
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When you cay Copying glasses, are we talking Transposition optics? i.e. split view to allow you to look at your hand and a page of text at the same time to copy it? they tried that with me when I was a kid when I got diagnosed with Dyslexia and it was awful gave me a headacke.

As for the speech therapy, Knowing what day of the week it was on would help working that out - even in the UK with the NHS and grad students that sort of thing only happens monday - friday if it's normally a billable service to a school, having said that if OPL was allowed to be a subject for new techniques it could have happened at a weekened, or if it was free by final year students is also a minor possibility (my mum was a FE Adult special needs tutor and this is sort of how it breaks down from my understanding).
 
What exactly do you envision as worse than being a chronically unemployed 34 y/o old addicted to LEGO and thousands of dollars in debt?
 
Marvin said:
Coping classes. That is, learning how to cope with his autism symptoms.
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Sorry as I said in my post I thought you meant the reading / writing aid one's, the one's I am on about give you a split view so you see in each eye a 50/50 split of a line to copy and your own hand, it's still considered a treatment in some parts of the UK for kid's with the Tisim. And even then it's not all that good of a treatment.
 
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