I know this is a nightmare for most parents of kids with an ASC. My son, in Year 12, is doing almost none of his homework - he refuses to do any at home and I think he is doing a little in free periods but clearly not much as teachers have started ringing us up! He has recently dropped one of his AS subjects which should give him plenty of free time to catch up on work, but he just stays home if the free period is at the start of the day, and comes home if it's at the end.
He is a very bright lad and got pretty good grades in his GCSEs without doing much work at all but we need somehow to drum it into his head that he can't get away with this in 6th form. And exams are coming next month - help!
AndrewC, thanks for your input on the now closed guideline thread. The school does indeed have facilities for my son to go to Learning Support and have supervised work times at various times in the week, but he doesn't go to them! There's also an after school homework club which he won't go to either. Either he forgets, or he is too tired and comes home.
I agree with you that, as a school we once visited said, 'Asperger's and homework don't mix'. But given that all pupils in a mainstream school have to do homework, and my son is really too high functioning for a specialist school, we seem to have reached deadlock.
