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Disabled facilities in school

LovingLisa

My daughter is autistic and attends mainstream school and is in their 'inclusion' program. She can't tolerate the noise of hand dryers in toilets and is terrified of the sight of them. In september when she moves into her new class there is a disabled toilet next door. Normally, she would use a disabled toilet as she is the only person in there and knows therefore the hand dryer wont turn on. I never realised the school had a disabled toilet but now I know and my daughter knows, she would like to start using it. She is a radar key holder although not a blue badge holder.

I mentioned this to her teacher for september in the last week of term and she got really funny with me and said she couldn't understand why my daughter was a radar key holder anyway. She said she would put it on her list of things to think about for September.

It's made me quite upset. I seem to have so many battles to fight at the moment that I don't need to have to fight about this to. Surely my daughter has a right to use the disabled facilities at school?

Could someone give me advice about this, I would be really grateful.

Thank you, Lisa

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  • crystal12 said:

    hi - this shows how out of touch this teacher is with your child's needs.  If necessary get other professionals involved, such as her sw and/or educational psych.  How's she doing at school otherwise?

    Academically she struggles and is below average. Our diagnosis is very new. Currently she doesn't have a social worker and hasn't seen an educational psychologist for about 4-5 years. She went through a suicidal phase a while ago at which point her teacher decided that we needed to focus more on emotional welfare and behaviour rather than school work. They don't really communicate much with me so I don't really know much about her school life. To be honest, other than knowing I want to apply for a statement of educational needs and try and have her attending a special needs school, I'm a little lost at the moment. I spent 6 years trying to obtain a diagnosis and now I'm not really sure what I should do with it. It takes me all my time not to sit here and cry. Does she need a social worker? Should I push for the educational psychologist? I can see that she has a lot of sensory issues to but I've been told we're not really entitled to a sensory assessment by OT because we're out of the catchment area. Not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing so just taking a few baby steps at the moment to try and make her life easier.

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  • crystal12 said:

    hi - this shows how out of touch this teacher is with your child's needs.  If necessary get other professionals involved, such as her sw and/or educational psych.  How's she doing at school otherwise?

    Academically she struggles and is below average. Our diagnosis is very new. Currently she doesn't have a social worker and hasn't seen an educational psychologist for about 4-5 years. She went through a suicidal phase a while ago at which point her teacher decided that we needed to focus more on emotional welfare and behaviour rather than school work. They don't really communicate much with me so I don't really know much about her school life. To be honest, other than knowing I want to apply for a statement of educational needs and try and have her attending a special needs school, I'm a little lost at the moment. I spent 6 years trying to obtain a diagnosis and now I'm not really sure what I should do with it. It takes me all my time not to sit here and cry. Does she need a social worker? Should I push for the educational psychologist? I can see that she has a lot of sensory issues to but I've been told we're not really entitled to a sensory assessment by OT because we're out of the catchment area. Not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing so just taking a few baby steps at the moment to try and make her life easier.

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