One conflict that I recently had was with the speech therapist that provides services to one of my students. I had bought it to her attention that I was worried about the child having Autism. She has the child's older brother and tells me that it is the mom that just wants more money for her children. When talking to my supervisor she said if I do not have the support of her I would not get anywhere. So with much regret I had to just work with the child on my own with what knowledge I had. At the last conference that I had with the parent, without me saying anything, she had a concern with her son. She has known someone with Autism and she sees many similarities. So I decided to talk to my supervisor and disabilities coordinator one more time. They said mom has to bring the concern to the speech therapist. If the speech therapist does not do anything then we will go from there. That is where we are standing on this conflict. Just by the comments that the speech therapist has made I do not think we will get very far with out a fight. We are hoping that we are able to get it figured out by the end of the year so the child does not fall behind in kindergarten. The conflict has still not be resolved but I will still stand strong on my opinion that this child needs help. I know you are suppose to compromise when their is a conflict but in my opinion I have to advocate for this child to succeed.

My co-teachers are being very supportive. They all think that something needs to be done. They are not sure what it is but they have stated that their are times that his response are not like a typical five year old.