Comments on: Adam Race, Alex Barton, Nate Tseglin

By: Elena Katz

Elena Katz — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:59:14 +0000

We have a very similar situations with our daughter Eleonora, now age 18. Please follow:
FreeElliegrodman@blogger.com
Nationwide support is needed.
Elena Katz

By: Elena Katz

Elena Katz — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:57:09 +0000

My daughter age 17 was seized from both of her loving parents,
she had PDD NOS. She is beeng detained as a hostage, for 13 months now, and the state had taken awat our decisoin making, as we do not agree with forced psych drugging of our child.
Eleonora had been irreparably injured in State’s custody, NH state mental intritutions, and Crotched Mountain Rehab Center, after forcibly drugged with massive overdose of psych drugs, aganst med advice.
Our story is remarbaly similar to Nate’s story.
We need natipnwide support to release our dayghte fron DCYF gulag.
I am also from Russia.
Nationwide help is urgently needed to Bring Ellie Grodman Ho,e. She is now Her life is in imminent danger in state’s custody.
Please disstibute this message nationwide.
Elena Katz, Mother of Eleonora Grodman

By: The State Makes A Bad Parent

The State Makes A Bad Parent — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:08:19 +0000

[...] I read about the ongoing case of Nate Tseglin at Kristina Chew’s blog (Autismvox). Nate is a seventeen-year-old boy with Aspergers Syndrome who was forcibly removed from his home [...]

By: Momof7

Momof7 — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:56:42 +0000

I hope someone has contacted the ACLU about this case; there needs to be a major investigation into the abuse of authority in this case and the breaking of many federal laws concerning abuse of a vulnerable individual.

As the former manager of a care home I can not even begin to enumerate the standard medical protocols broken as far as the deliverance of psychotropic meds & truncation up and down for dosages, the gross incompetance of medical staff in ignoring of symptoms directly related to side effects of improperly monitored medications.

Let alone the gross mismanagement of the case in regards to CPS overstepping their rights to intervene in a family care situation.

I’m so deeply enraged at both the incompetance of the medical staff managing Nate’s care and the Gestapo practices carried out in this case I can not begin to adequately articulate my feelings.

Nate was past the age of compulsory school attendance. The school’s placement of him in basically remedial classes when in fact he was very advanced showed their utter ignorance.

My heart goes out to his family and to Nate.

I hope that some hot shot barracuda sues the institutions that mismanaged his care into the next millenium.

I pray that his family can find competant medical care to reverse the biological trauma that his body has been through and can find it within their hearts to reach out to a competant therapist to help their son deal with the emotional after affects of his unjust incarceration.

By: julie miller

julie miller — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:26:11 +0000

this teacher should be fired i am outraged.A five year old boy with problems is hard enough , then to have an adult act like that is unacceptable.The boy should be brought back in and have the children tell what they like about him.The teacher should of course should be let go

By: Nate Tseglin Released to His Family

Nate Tseglin Released to His Family — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:04:46 +0000

[...] confirmed: Nate Tseglin, who was removed from his parents and institutionalized, is going home. Tags: asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, Nate Tseglin, pdd-nos, psychotropic [...]

By: Synesthesia

Synesthesia — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:53:29 +0000

I never even knew about that case.
That is so deeply, incredibly horrible!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:40:12 +0000

One doctor (developmental specialist) supported our decision not to medicate for a while, but then started leaning towards it. Our pediatrician is the one doing the medication trials because she’s closer and can monitor him more closely. She’s neutral about his need for meds, but since I asked her to oversee it, she agreed. The biggest push has come from the school counselor, who also happened to recommend that he be placed in his current class. WHile he’s doing well academically, it’s been a very stressful year in terms of behavior. They want a kid they can mainsteam, so if that means doping him up, then I should be more than willing to do that in their view. “He could do so much more if he could just focus…” He’s already a full grade level ahead, how much more is he supposed to do? Oh, right! He’s supposed to do that in a mainstream class because everyone wants their kid in a mainstream class.

It’s a sore spot for me. Honestly, I wouldn’t be fussed if my son never saw a mainstream class knowing how he would probably be tormented – drugs or not.

I’ll stop ranting now.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:09:48 +0000

@Andrea, thank you so much for the link and for the too-kind words—-

We’ve tried a number of medications for Charlie. A behavior consultant (hired by the school district) tried to blame Charlie’s having behavior trouble on the medication specifically, even though Charlie had a long history with the behaviors. We had to home-school Charlie for a brief period. Did your son’s doctor think the medication was as necessary?

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:01:07 +0000

How scary that this can happen in this country. I’m glad Nate prevailed, in the end.