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Social Issues: School and Daycare

My seven year old daughter, diagnosed with type 1 diabetes a month ago, doesn’t want to go to school. Right now, we just push her into the classroom and leave. We do go back at lunchtime to check her sugar and give her insulin. She does fine and has a different attitude at the end of the day. Am I doing the right thing?

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I have a diabetic student who I think is playing games with me. He eats junk food constantly. Whenever he gets in trouble for something, he acts like he is having breathing problems and says he needs another snack because he is low.

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Our nine year old daughter is going into fourth grade in our large public school district. We are requesting a certain teacher, who we personally know to be experienced, informed and knowledgeable about diabetes, but our request is not being honored. Do we have any rights to request a certain teacher?

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Are there any concerns, either medical (blood borne pathogens) or legal, which pertain to glucose testing in the classroom for a 10 year old? We desire to negotiate for “in classroom testing” for many reasons, rather than repeated trips to the nurses office. The child is on an insulin pump.

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My 12 year old son has had diabetes for two and one-half years. He started middle school.He constantly forgets homework, projects, seems upset by it but nothing we try changes it. I have found the schools to be unsympathetic. Isn’t it true that the demands of school, his diabetes routine, and the side affects of high/low blood sugars can adversely affect school performance?

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My eight year old daughter has type 1 diabetes and is in the third grade. She is very independent and knows what to do when her sugars are low, can draw insulin by herself and gives her own shots. If her dad or I cannot accompany her on a full day school trip, could the school ask her to stay home?

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I am a school psychologist involved with a situation in which the parent of a middle school aged young man is concerned about the appropriateness of following the school discipline policy with her diabetic son.

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I teach in a child care center where we have a young, undersized two year old with diabetes. We are are afraid the parents are not getting good advice from their doctor. Are they correct? Are we just over-reacting to chronically high numbers?

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My five year old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of two and one-half. She has never been to daycare or pre-school, and is starting school for the first time next month. Since is the first time that she will be away from me or my wife, we are very nervous.

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My three and one-half year old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and is now a happy preschooler. What types of learning disabilities are most common in children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at a young age? Is there any type of therapy that can be done to correct this condition?

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