Two families have reached out to WPTV about their autistic children being removed from their schools.
Meredith Colosimo enrolled her two-year-old nonverbal autistic son into All About Kids Learning Center in Lake Worth Beach. She told the school that her son had been diagnosed with autism and wanted to make sure he was still going to be able to attend. She was told that as long as her child was non violent, they would work with him.
Colosimo says All About Kids did work with him for eight months before she was told he could no longer go to school.
“The director said that she felt like I was doing my son a disservice by leaving him with regular kids when he has special needs. They never expressed they were concerned and he never received any type of disciplinary infraction. They didn’t even give me a two-week notice,” she said.
WPTVColosimo says the incident has forced her to take a leave of absence from her job so she can take care of her child. As a single mom who is no longer working, she is worried how she is going to feed her family and pay her bills.