Aspies For Freedom

Autistic toddler \"forgotten\"  in van

Associated Press

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A 3-year-old autistic boy fell asleep in a Bucks County Intermediate Unit van taking children to the Tawanka Learning Center and went unnoticed for more than an hour, leading to a new policy for the vans.

Now buses or vans will be searched before they leave the schools, said Carole Smith, assistant director of the Intermediate Unit's special education division. Formerly, instructional assistants were responsible for escorting their pupils from the Intermediate Unit vans into each classroom.

Kyle Lauletta, 3, fell asleep in the back seat of a minivan carrying children to the learning center in the Neshaminy School District on Jan. 3. The first assistant to take children from the van closed the door because it was raining. Seeing the door closed, the driver thought all the children were off, and left. He found Kyle,still asleep, when he drove back to Tawanka to pick children up.

A school nurse examined Kyle, and the school called his mother. "The first day I was in shock. The second day I was enraged," Angela Lauletta said.

Source:
http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/ind...ylist=penn

Last year a young autistic schoolboy was left on the schoolbus all day after he had fallen asleep on the way to school.
He was found at the end of the day when children got on to return home.

One reason that the children might fall asleep is that they can be picked up very early and have a long journey to school. My son used to have to travel for an hour each way, every day.

I remember that case, Amy. I remember all the cases. It's why I'm here.

What, they didn't originally have that as a policy? That's just dumb. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Because normies have pushed themselves so far in the direction of "one size fits all" that they honestly believe there is no need to be so thorough until said need hits them in the face.

Thank goodness it wasn't a hot day or this little boy could have died. I am certainly astounded that a check wasn't made to ensure all the children were out of the vehicle.

I am not sure how it works with vans, but a family sedan can kill an infant in thirty minutes.

I read of a tragic case a few years ago where five little girls hid in a car as part of a hide and seek game and the heat in the car got so bad within 5-10 minutes that they died before they could open the car.

With the kind of heat we get in some parts of the world, the temperature in a shut car (or one with windows opened just a crack) reaches 60-70 degrees celsius within minutes.

I hesitate to imagine the temperature the inside of a car can reach when parked out in Coober Pedy for an hour or three.

I once got left behind on a primary school swimming excursion.  It was a day when we had several primary schools competing together and I was waiting quietly at a spot where I'd been told to wait by a teacher who must have forgotten about me.  And I still don't know why they didn't count heads when the children were on the bus.  Anyway, I kept waiting and eventually it got quiet, so I went to the lady at the counter and asked her when I had to go outside to get on the bus (I was around six or seven at the time) and she said the school buses had all left.  She called the school but the bus hadn't gotten back at that stage (it was a good hour's trip from the town with the swimming pool to our little country school) and I waited and waited and eventually thought "this is stupid" got up and walked out.  I was halfway home (I'd gone past the village of Beelbangera and was halfway to Bilbul and Yenda) by the time the school principal came racing along the road in his car to get me.  Now I think about it, I believe it was this event that precipitated the "cowbell" incident I talked about before!

Alison