Hi, I have a special and very specific request for assistance, and I hope Mudcat will come through.


THE BACKGROUND
Carla, a parishioner and former Montessori educator/administrator, has a young son (gr. 1 or 2 I think) with what she has been told is a high-functioning Asperger's. She and her husband have two other older young children at home and a crazy-busy life healthily centered on the three of them. Grandparent support also is present, active, healthy, and educator-experienced.

All three children are in a good local private school here in the rural northern part of PA; services here across the board are good in quality but sparse in delivery because they are stretched thin across a wide and logisitically challenging geographic area. Linking up with other Asperger's parents also is difficult; it's stigmatized here along with any other perceived lack of mental function. Robbie's function is not "troublesome" enough to be effectively on the school's radar, when there are so many lower-functioning children in our area.

I have a particular link to this family and this young child because I once held the infant Robbie all night long in a hospital rocker while Mama got some much-needed sleep herself during an early health challenge; I will never forget watching Robbie's oxygen saturation going up, up, up as I stroked and patted his back.


THE REQUEST
I will very much appreciate EMAIL ADDRESSES via PM of people here who are willing to correspond offthread with Carla. She is eager for support and information to help her deal with the school, but she does not have time for Mudcat (or Asperger's message boards to find the best "fit.")


I know y'all will use this thread if you wish to offer other pearls of wisdom, and I will print it at some point for Carla; but please know that I will not be moderating or responding much here in this thread myself because I'm just not here much these days. (I check in daily and paticipate in a very few threads but my schedule has filled up past insanity for the near future.)


Thanks for any help,

~Susan