Thanks Bobby and others
The really odd thing is that punishment has only a temporary effect.
There does not seem to be a lasting effect. The special education
teacher told me today on the phone (who I think has done a fine job thus
far) that she thinks she could get better behavior from her with the
structure and small class and consistency but she doesn't recommend it
because she feels that she needs to learn out to socially learn the
rules of working with people etc. I respected her opinion on both
accounts.

Jason

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Jason and Lauren,

       This is a difficult problem to answer. It does not seem to be
disability related, per se. It could be alot of things. For example, if
the tasks given to her are beyond her reach, this "acting out" may be
one way of side stepping such tasks. If she perceives her environment
(classroom) as too active (noisy, etc.), this may be a way of coping for
her. I would discuss with the school the kind of timeouts you think will
work. I acted out some in school and it got me plenty of attention. I
mumbled to a teacher on the playground once "Shut up" and she ask me to
repeat what I had mumbled. I was dumb enough to repeat it and was  taken
to the principal's office. Punishment was efffective for me.

Bobby

> I was wandering from any of you if you yourself as a child with a
> "disability" and with all this "attention" if you every delt with the
> issues I mentioned above. It certainly is counter productive in our
> girls case but not sure how to go about getting to desire less adult
> attention. She is not swayed in anyway by peer pressure at this time
> yet. How have any other delt with their kids in this similar
> situation??????
>