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everso

Hello there

I'm mum to four young boys, the eldest (8) has mild aspergers, our next-in-line (6) has traits of aspergers and one of our youngest (4) has a more severe form of aspergers and consequently receives DLA and NHS speech therapy support.  He has just completed his "early bird intervention" course with Autism Outreach.  We won't know about our youngest (2) until he is a little bit older and the symptoms might/might not fully present themselves.

We homeschool all 4 boys, with the support of the local authority homeschooling dept. and Autism Outreach - but in the early days, before the diagnosis and all the ensuing help - I was grateful for forums like this one, and the autism blogs out there, for advice and encouragement.

Looking forward to meeting with other families dealing with autism Smile

-everso

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  • I'm glad it's been such a positive experience for you.  It was for us (other than the challenges of my youngest's behaviour), until I got my children referred for autism assessments (both since diagnosed).  But in seeking assessments for their autism, I encountered a lot of strange and obstructive behaviour from services, (despite having a fully LA-endorsed provision) and I have since found out that our ignorant GP made a secret and unwarranted referral to social services behind our backs purely on the basis that we were home-educating!  It's unbelievable.  Such ignorance about home-educating in a professional is not something you expect.  He wrongly assumed they had no contact with anyone and accused me of having an obsession with them having autism (implying emotional harm) and I have been proven to be right as they were diagnosed.  Yet another example of GPs being ignorant about autism - and it might be an idea if they were made to be educated on home-education as well!

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  • I'm glad it's been such a positive experience for you.  It was for us (other than the challenges of my youngest's behaviour), until I got my children referred for autism assessments (both since diagnosed).  But in seeking assessments for their autism, I encountered a lot of strange and obstructive behaviour from services, (despite having a fully LA-endorsed provision) and I have since found out that our ignorant GP made a secret and unwarranted referral to social services behind our backs purely on the basis that we were home-educating!  It's unbelievable.  Such ignorance about home-educating in a professional is not something you expect.  He wrongly assumed they had no contact with anyone and accused me of having an obsession with them having autism (implying emotional harm) and I have been proven to be right as they were diagnosed.  Yet another example of GPs being ignorant about autism - and it might be an idea if they were made to be educated on home-education as well!

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