Special Needs Clinic Fights Against Business Building Tenants
It’s a battle of words between the parents of special needs children and their office-building neighbors.
Inside of the building off of 1160 Lake Plaza Dr. some businesses said there is just too much noise and aggression coming from a clinic for special needs children, but parents say they are the ones being attacked.
?I first heard the secretary from across the hall screaming at a group of children that were outside. I blew it off. I thought it wasn’t that big a deal,? said parent Reese Abercrombie.
Abercrombie said her three-year-old boy has autism and attends the Shandy Clinic in the office building. Abercrombie said she likes the clinic, but not the way the tenants, like the Law Office of Jeanne M. Wilson, treat families. Abercrombie says an employee has yelled at her.
?Get that child in that room. Get that child in that room. We have a business here. We can’t hear to make our phone calls,? said Abercrombie when asked what she had been told by employees of the law office.
Attorney Wilson said that it is parents that have been very aggressive to her staff. Wilson said, during a phone interview, that she has requested her staff start recording the noise and aggression for their own protection.
Wilson said she believes a letter sent to parents by the clinic blaming her practice for the clinic’s troubles with the building owner is the cause of that increased parent aggression.
Parents disagree.
?I have seen parents react but I have never seen parents being aggressive to them for no reason,? said Abercrombie
Wilson said that she doesn’t believe all the parents nor the children are to blame, but that she must protect her staff from aggressive situations.
The one-thing parents and the law firm do agree on, is that it has been a stressful situation.
The Shandy Clinic is scheduled to move out of the building this week, but parents said owners feel like they’ve been forced into this position.
The owners of the building and owners of the Shandy Clinic are going through litigation because of the move, but parents said they expect to be happier once the clinic moves.
