Does anyone know where I could take my son for swimming lessons? He would need someone who was willing to work with his high anxiety and also his coordination problems.

I would like help finding a school for my seven year old son who has pdd with autism. I am prepared this spring to sue the board education of nyc because they don't have a class for pdd and most of the children are pdd in special education .

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I am a preschool teacher here in Ft.Pierce Florida. I was in a classroom setting about 2 years ago. I had a new child that came into my classroom. The parents wanted this child in a setting with other children. At the time the child was not speaking nor interacting with the other children or his siblings. One day after the child was in my class for a couple of days, I noticed that the child whenever we had our circle time, he would turn completely around and not even listen to our songs, stories etc. At the time I was enrolled in a disabality class for children with special needs. After me doing several different startigies. It came to my conclusion that the child had something wrong. At the age of 3 1/2 the child should be talking but he was doing nothing. He couldn't put together a puzzle. Never the less one day after bringing it to our director's attention, we had a conference with the parents and they were in total denial. After about 2 weeks of being in school, one day the father came in and saw his child was only sitting by himself and asked me if he was always like this and to make a long story short, the next day he was tested and was diganoised with Austism. The child is now in a special needs class and is trying to talk at the age of 5 years old. Jan

I just wanted to comment on your story. It's is very much the same as mine. My 9 year old boy does not tie his shoes or brush his teeth and does not have friends, he will do these things in time because God is good all the Time. I have a little tip to give, when my son is really in a bad mood and not behaving correctly he will make a mean looking face and be very serious, i have found a way to calm him down, when he is making this face i make a very , very funny,goofy face and he does not know what to think and breaks out with wonderful laughter and this seems to calm him down. Have you try anything like this to get your child out of a mad moood?