Title: Family Reportedly Asked To Leave Outback Steakhouse Because of ‘Noise’ Made by Son with Special Needs Source:
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Family Reportedly Asked To Leave Outback Steakhouse Because of ‘Noise’ Made by Son with Special Needs
By Kayla Kunkel
Published August 12, 2019 at 2:20pm
One of the best ways to bond with your family is over a meal, but for one family in Maryland a family dinner at their local Outback Steakhouse left them feeling angry and heartbroken after they were asked to leave because of their 4-year-old son with special needs.
Amanda Braun was excited to spend time with her family over the dinner table Saturday night. According to a now-viral Facebook post, the evening started off well.
“We were seated almost immediately,” Braun wrote. “We ordered our drinks while skimming the menu then finally ordered our dinner. Our meals came out in good time and all of us were enjoying ourselves.”
“A man approached our table about 5 minutes after our food was brought out and introduced himself as the manager. He asked us how our meals were but he didn’t stop there.”
Braun said that the manager told them that another patron had complained about the “noise” from 4-year-old Killian and that they would need to finish their meals and leave.
Killian was born with a neurological disorder called Childhood Apraxia of Speech. According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, this disorder occurs when messages sent from the brain that tell the muscles of the mouth how to move in order to speak are disrupted.
“A child with CAS knows what they want to say,” ASHA wrote on their website. “The problem is not how the child thinks but how the brain tells the mouth muscles to move.”
For Killian specifically, Braun wrote that when her son speaks, the words are unclear.
What a sad affair. But does this mean I can just protest to the manager if somebody's got a noisy brat that's driving me crazy? It's so frequent that I try to go out to eat at early or in-between hours. Parents are defiant, of course, even when the behavior is quite flagrant.