Makes funny sounds in assembly - help

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I just wanted to report that our home practice of silence during story time worked. The teacher is happy about the reduced noises however he now turns his back to her. So now we need to include that too.

Food for thought: if your children were deaf instead of on the spectrum, I am guessing the school would go further to help accommodate both the child's needs and the school's. This might be worth mentioning to anyone who is resistant to working with your children. (IDK if you've ever been in a large group of deaf people, I have - they are LOUD)

My son is in special needs kindergarten, so they are definitely working with him. My concern is that if he continues with the noisemaking, it is going to prevent him from being mainstreamed. It is not that I am so dead set on him being in a mainstream class, but I just feel that my son is bright and is capable of learning, and he tends to mimic behaviors of other children. I just hate to see him held back because of this behavior. My son is fully verbal, and speaks in complete sentences.

Just an observation based on not much information: I would make sure that "working on it" at the school isn't a euphemism for "trying to get him to stop" instead of "trying to come up with an equitable solution that works for everybody - starting by figuring out what is causing the disruption."

Very true-Momsparky. I am very interested in getting to the bottom of what is the cause of the verbal stimming. I am having a meeting in a couple of weeks, and I want to discuss this in depth.

Angel bear, surely it is not legal to hold your son back from mainstreaming based on a verbal stim. Have you looked into the legalities of that? Here in Canada, there is NO WAY a child would be prevented from mainstream classes because of that.

Hey Caitlin, the school system hasn't suggested that it would be a reason to hold him back----I guess it is just my own fears that this would happen. I guess I am afraid too that he might get bullied because of this sort of behavior. This is why it helps me to come to WP to discuss things so that I am better equipped and more confident. Fortunately, we live in an area that is very in tune with autism/Asperger's so I think things will be okay.