Comments on: Lost For 4 Hours

By: Buses Don’t Lose Children

Buses Don’t Lose Children — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:45:54 +0000

[...] again: This past Tuesday, an 8-year-old autistic boy, Devin Slaney, was “misplaced” on a [...]

By: Hot Summer Autism Topics

Hot Summer Autism Topics — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:00:31 +0000

[...] when told he has no school today and Friday, due to the 4th of July) and on the autism front: Buses that don’t know where they’re going, an autistic boy found walking after the highway, some good news too. The first two items make me [...]

By: Daisy

Daisy — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:07:50 +0000

This bothers me to no end. There are just too many questions. It’s easy for me to say, “I’d take him to the counselor or doctor ASAP,” but I’d probably just be so relieved to have him back safely I’d collapse.

By: Paula

Paula — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:59:18 +0000

I can easily imagine being lost for 4 hours. I’ve been lost for up to an hour, at least. But then again, I know better than to apply for a job with a transportation service! (Even gps doesn’t always help me.) I do hope the parents have the child checked by a physician.

By: farmwifetwo

farmwifetwo — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:31:24 +0000

I too would probably have taken my child to the Dr’s afterwards….. but I’m VERY cynical.

As for being lost… would not have happened with my 2. One you would get pointing in the direction he wished to go and “left, right” comments. The other you would have gotten full directions, street names, stop signs etc etc.

So there would have been no excuses about being “lost”.

By: Storkdok

Storkdok — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:41:38 +0000

It is because of stories like these that I just can’t let Alex be driven except by the actual bus service for the school district, not a driving service they hire. I would be very suspicious of that driver and the unauthorized person in the car and the unaccounted hours. I wonder if the driver was fingerprinted and had a background check before being hired? That driving service has a lot of “splanin” to do!

I had to drive my son for years up to 3 hours a day in the car (for me, he had half that time in the car and I used it as time to engage and teach him), because of an incident not unlike this one that happened in the Portland, ME area about 5 or 6 years ago.

In the “incident” here it was that the driver drove home and supposedly left the little non-verbal boy in the van in his driveway. After about 3 hours, the boy, 3 years old, somehow got out of his car seat and knocked on the front door, and the wife of the driver answered and found him. The mother and school were frantic, trying to find him. The driver did some errands in the van, too. Well, I thought that was really weird, and I was not surprised later to hear the mother had found that the boys underwear was on backwards. Hmm… There was no other news on this that I could find out. But there was no way I would take a chance with my son, so I quit my job and did the driving.

By: sharon

sharon — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:26:05 +0000

I am feeling much better that my boys don’t want to go to any camp and are home with me.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:29:56 +0000

I’m not sure who would be freaking out more—the driver, Charlie, or me!

By: Marla

Marla — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:38:31 +0000

That is terrible. I would have totally freaked out. M would have been beyond unhappy and I can’t even imagine the driver having any idea what to do.

By: Bonnie Sayers

Bonnie Sayers — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:15:18 +0000

Wow that Mother on the highway in MD finding her kid. I would not have had any breath in me to run after the kid, would have had an asthma attack or collapsed.

Matt’s lips were really dry and chapped when I got him at camp, they had a field trip and he is all sun burned. I will not send him for the soak cityplace at the end of the month. Last year I did not send him on the one they did today, but tried it this time.