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Pity party for one please
So I've gotten finished talking to anybody with authority at my school. Unhappily there is no way they can accommodate my ECT treatments. They will not allow the missed time. So now I'm left searching for options.
I can finish up my term and go on term break until there is a new cohort for student teaching in Sept.
I can transfer to the Bachelors of Arts of Educational Science get my bachelors degree, but not my teaching licensure.
If I get my BAES I can go to work for the school and apply for a alternative route licensure. The benefit of that is I would be employed in the school while I get my license. Also the cost of the license is $500 less.
I can get my BAES and transfer to Walden University and start my Masters of Science in Education with a Specialization in Special Ed with an Emotionally Behaviorally Disturbed Endorsement. If I go that route I can either work as a substitute and work on my MS or I can get my alternative licensure and get my MS while being a teacher.
I am desperately trying to form a new plan because this isn't how it was supposed to be. I'm not allowing myself to get upset because I have to change midstream, because I promised DH I wouldn't.
The big problem with getting my BAES is that I'm going to have to take 5 extra classes and I have two months left to do it in, or I'm going to have to start a new term. I don't want to start a new term as a Bachelor student. I want that chapter to be shut. I think I can do it. :-S
Gee Dee it aren't they supposed to accommodate students with disabilities?
Re: Pity party for one please
My best friend was working on her PhD when she needed to take some time to deal with a severe mental health crisis (she has had a variety of diagnoses over the past decade, so I won't try to give her a label) . Her career took a temporary hit and she dealt with some pretty bigoted treatment from her department.
What she learned later was that she could have contacted the university's ADA department and they would have helped her fill out the paperwork that REQUIRED the university to make reasonable accommodations for her condition. They would have walked her through everything and she wouldn't have lost a semester's worth of work/time.
It is likely that your school gets federal money so they will have to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Perhaps they can help you get a little flexibility and keep you on your track.
Always worth a try...
Please contact your school's ADA department. Don't expect that the administrators in your department will know what your options are - most don't. It was astonishing to us that **no one** even suggested the ADA office to her when she was going through all of this. I have deep regret that we didn't know the help that would have been available. I hope you can benefit from our experience.
I know what my best friend has been through with her mental illness. She is the most amazing woman I know for persevering to get to a more "normal" life. A couple of years ago, at her darkest point, we were able to get her into a study that compared her EEG to people who were successfully medicated for their psychiatric problems. The medication set that she was put on didn't make her life magically fabulous, but after about 3 months, she looked up at me and said "I feel like me." something she had never said to me before in almost 10 years of friendship. The past few years haven't been problem free, but she feels more capable than ever. I hope you can experience the same thing.
You have received great advice here. I just wanted to add a few virtual hugs. You are such a strong woman Damik, even if you do not feel it. Hang in there, you have a lot of people behind you!
Also, I agree that with Julie that you are allowed to feel what you feel and should not have to hide that from yourself or your husband!
Definately contact the ADA dept.
And, if you do decided to get the bachelor's, check and see--sometimes since you are already degreed, you cut yourself off from aid, etc by finishing. So check that before you decide.