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Frith

Hello! My younger son (9) was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome yesterday. It was not a big surprise but I do feel a bit lost as I was given a handout and basically told "best of luck"!

Not sure what I should do next. I have ordered a couple of books - one for me to learn a bit more and one for son that we can read together to explain it. (He knows something is different about him but I have not talked about meeting his paediatrician or the diagnosis yet).

There do not seem to be any support groups in my area.

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  • Hello, Hubbub.

     

    Glad your son has found a good college.

    Lots of school problems here! To cut a long story short, son did OK in years 1-3 but did have selective mutism. Some teachers found that harder to deal with than others.

    I don't really know what happened in year 4 (but he was bullied from reception onwards by the same boy). He started getting very anxious and in the end started disrupting lessons by wandering around and making different noises. By year 5 he had been excluded several times and had begun leaving the classroom entirely. Sometimes he left the school!

    The year 5 teacher was quite awful and tried "laying the law down" and things just spiralled until he got permanently excluded. I appealed the exclusion and won!

    By that time he was in a short stay school (started there last November). He is still there, in a class of 5 and they have had very few problems with him. He gets up and dressed and looks out of the window for his taxi. :-) Only trouble is that he is travelling 3 hours a day to get there.

    After his Aspergers diagnosis yesterday I phoned the county council as I had *just* selected 3 mainstream schools. (I put in for a statement last year too and he is entitled to 30 hours a week). I told the council to hang fire on the 3 possible schools and give me time to consider autism bases. They phoned back this morning and want a copy of his diagnosis report then will tell me if he is allowed to join an autism base.

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  • Hello, Hubbub.

     

    Glad your son has found a good college.

    Lots of school problems here! To cut a long story short, son did OK in years 1-3 but did have selective mutism. Some teachers found that harder to deal with than others.

    I don't really know what happened in year 4 (but he was bullied from reception onwards by the same boy). He started getting very anxious and in the end started disrupting lessons by wandering around and making different noises. By year 5 he had been excluded several times and had begun leaving the classroom entirely. Sometimes he left the school!

    The year 5 teacher was quite awful and tried "laying the law down" and things just spiralled until he got permanently excluded. I appealed the exclusion and won!

    By that time he was in a short stay school (started there last November). He is still there, in a class of 5 and they have had very few problems with him. He gets up and dressed and looks out of the window for his taxi. :-) Only trouble is that he is travelling 3 hours a day to get there.

    After his Aspergers diagnosis yesterday I phoned the county council as I had *just* selected 3 mainstream schools. (I put in for a statement last year too and he is entitled to 30 hours a week). I told the council to hang fire on the 3 possible schools and give me time to consider autism bases. They phoned back this morning and want a copy of his diagnosis report then will tell me if he is allowed to join an autism base.

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