Has anyone else experienced this? My son was visited by a social worker who managed to reduce him to a catatonic state within ten minutes because the social worker just didn't know how to talk to him. This was after I had tried to explain things and given him constructive hints about being task-oriented etc. and he still came in wanting to be "informal and non-threatening". Furthermore the social worker didn't seem to have ever seen this kind of reaction before and didn't seem to understand that it was an autism-related thing.
I really hope the training takes effect soon and we get some social workers with clue working with our young adults because at the moment it is a nightmare trying to get a care needs assessment done.
