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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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  • Hi there,

    I was so saddened to hear about your experiences - it's that kind of response that I worried so much about when we needed to refer (we went via a health visitor who knew our family really well, so a GP wasn't involved) - worrying about whether we would encounter someone who was prejudiced against homeschoolers.  As a Homeschooler you're the one who has to refer for everything, from more serious stuff to normal school-based stuff like hearing tests - so they definitely shouldn't be making us afraid to approach them when we need help, for fear of being reported just for home educating.

    I'm also a private tutor - and the difference in the general perception, and the level of having to prove I'm capable -  between teaching other people's children for money to teaching my own children more basic primary school skills for free seems very, very odd to me.

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  • Hi there,

    I was so saddened to hear about your experiences - it's that kind of response that I worried so much about when we needed to refer (we went via a health visitor who knew our family really well, so a GP wasn't involved) - worrying about whether we would encounter someone who was prejudiced against homeschoolers.  As a Homeschooler you're the one who has to refer for everything, from more serious stuff to normal school-based stuff like hearing tests - so they definitely shouldn't be making us afraid to approach them when we need help, for fear of being reported just for home educating.

    I'm also a private tutor - and the difference in the general perception, and the level of having to prove I'm capable -  between teaching other people's children for money to teaching my own children more basic primary school skills for free seems very, very odd to me.

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