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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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  • hi - no wonder you feel so stressed.  My sympathies go out to you and your family.  I wd have thought that if your daughter has a diagnosis, then she wd have a statemement and that professionals wd have been involved in the statementing process.  I then wd have thought that she wd have been allocated a sw as a matter of course.  Is she educated out of your local authority area?  I don't see why an OT from your local authority area cdn't do an assess't.  My son was educated out of area for nearly 9 yrs but he remained on social services "books" in our local authority and received some respite care when he was home for the holidays. Things sound a bit confusing to me.  I don't want to confuse things any more by making presumptions that may be wrong so I'm trying to do my best here!  If it was me, I think I'd contact social services and enquire about getting a sw,  (explaining your situation to them and the problems you're having).  From what you say I think you're on the right track in deciding your child needs a school specialising in autism. Sounds like she's wrongly placed from what you say.  Get into "the system" via a sw and then start putting your case.  The nas site has loads of resources and I think it wd be worth contacting them about your situation to see what advice they can give as a way forward.  

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  • hi - no wonder you feel so stressed.  My sympathies go out to you and your family.  I wd have thought that if your daughter has a diagnosis, then she wd have a statemement and that professionals wd have been involved in the statementing process.  I then wd have thought that she wd have been allocated a sw as a matter of course.  Is she educated out of your local authority area?  I don't see why an OT from your local authority area cdn't do an assess't.  My son was educated out of area for nearly 9 yrs but he remained on social services "books" in our local authority and received some respite care when he was home for the holidays. Things sound a bit confusing to me.  I don't want to confuse things any more by making presumptions that may be wrong so I'm trying to do my best here!  If it was me, I think I'd contact social services and enquire about getting a sw,  (explaining your situation to them and the problems you're having).  From what you say I think you're on the right track in deciding your child needs a school specialising in autism. Sounds like she's wrongly placed from what you say.  Get into "the system" via a sw and then start putting your case.  The nas site has loads of resources and I think it wd be worth contacting them about your situation to see what advice they can give as a way forward.  

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