Timber Trail, Amelia, VA 23002

I recently enrolled a special needs child who is also nonverbal into Amelia elementary school in the special needs kindergarten class. This is where he began coming home with bites, bruises, and very questionable things he would tell us on his speech device. At first the communication didn’t line up with where his marks were on his skin but later stories would change. I wish I could upload pictures here because he is supposed to be in a class of 5 year olds but these bruises were big. They said he wouldn’t cry whenever he got hurt and I genuinely believe it’s because he was scared to cry around these adults. He told us on his AAC device that his teacher hurt him in the bathroom. We had a meeting and she told us she takes his device away from him because she doesn’t want the other kids touching his device. But that is his voice how would you feel if you weren’t able to talk at all for a whole day everyday at school. We had several talks with the school and everytime we would just get different story and no one seemed to care so we decided it was best to take him out of school.