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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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  • LovingLisa said:

    . 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.

     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.

    i suggest a meeting one on one with her teachers, the head and yourself to discuss those things, because not only are you entitled to know but she is entilted to the right sort of help and education for her

    what you do with it is start to understand her, you and the needs she has and make sure all other people who need toknow know, like teachers etc

    yes push for the psychologist

    i dont know anything about not being in 'the area' but if you ttalk to tteachers, get a psychologist you might be able to get a better option there

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  • LovingLisa said:

    . 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.

     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.

    i suggest a meeting one on one with her teachers, the head and yourself to discuss those things, because not only are you entitled to know but she is entilted to the right sort of help and education for her

    what you do with it is start to understand her, you and the needs she has and make sure all other people who need toknow know, like teachers etc

    yes push for the psychologist

    i dont know anything about not being in 'the area' but if you ttalk to tteachers, get a psychologist you might be able to get a better option there

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