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NEED advice!! start statementing process

wood36

I wonder if anyone could possibly give me a piece of advice.

My 9 year old son has been diagnosed with ASD, selective mutisms, severe anxiety disorder and sensory integrated disorder. His psychologist has strongly recommended me that I should start statementing process for my son as soon as possible. The problem is that, his school (mainstream) has failed to identify his difficulties/problems, as he is an extremely obedient and quiet pupil and he can’t ask for help. They think he is perfectly OK, as he doesn’t cause problems or complain about anything, although he often releases his anxiety or stress (accumulated in school) after coming back from school, as form of aggressive and violent behaviours. He still needs to wear a nappy for his poo and he can’t clean by himself. He has never done poo in school so they don’t believe it. He often comes back from school with a burse, but he can’t explain why he has got it (he can’t ask for help when he gets injured, he just keeps everything inside him. I also witnessed his classmate injured him but my son even couldn’t tell his friend to stop it or complained about pain)   

 As my understanding, once my request of assessment has been made, LA is going to collect the “evidence” from school within 6 weeks. I am not convinced at all that the school write anything that support my application, as they strongly believe that my son is perfectly capable in school, as he doesn’t complain.

 Anyone has the same experience? Want to apply for statement but school report is not supportive at all?  I really want to start the process but what will happen when school report spoiled my application? (quite likely ended up to a tribunal, isn’t it?)  Any advice will be very much appreciated.

Many thanks! 

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  • Kolojaro raises the important point about where autism/aspergers fits in in relation to activities like school work.

    For those with the condition who are academically able, it follows they can do academic things, such as what is required in the classroom.

    To illustrate in a different context, I've just been reminded by a relative that one of the jobs I did between school and university was journalist - well journalism means you have to interview people so if you could do that you cannot have aspergers.

    Well aspergers isn't a learning disability, though learning disability may play a part, especially as many have dyslexia as well. I'm not thick or retarded (even if I might act like it sometimes). I'm competent linguistically, though for years relied on written communication as face to face I didn't come over well. All the same I could interview people and write up what I got from interviews well.

    I read about it often that it seems schools still confuse aspergers with learning disability and think that confident performance in a classroom situation contradicts an aspergers diagnoses. But aspergers, aside from environmental sensitivity, narrow interests, organisational issues etc is about social dynamics, and not being able to read social situations well or identify collectively arrived at states of mind. This doesn't prevent performing well in class if the class is structured, organised and predictable.

    My brief encounter with journalism lasted four months. I've still got clippings of the articles I wrote, a long time ago now, and I was writing competently and getting a good feel for the situation. But I did prefer factual writing from research rather than interview. I love regurgitating facts.

    What killed the job after four months was not fitting in - catastrophically not fitting in. I couldn't comprehend the wry humour and couldn't respond properly to the people I worked with. The job deteriorated as I got more and more bogged down in workplace relations.

    That is widely the problem for adults with aspergers. We may be perfectly capable of doing a good job to a high standard. But we haven't a hope of fitting into the social dynamics of the job. Same is true in school.

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  • Kolojaro raises the important point about where autism/aspergers fits in in relation to activities like school work.

    For those with the condition who are academically able, it follows they can do academic things, such as what is required in the classroom.

    To illustrate in a different context, I've just been reminded by a relative that one of the jobs I did between school and university was journalist - well journalism means you have to interview people so if you could do that you cannot have aspergers.

    Well aspergers isn't a learning disability, though learning disability may play a part, especially as many have dyslexia as well. I'm not thick or retarded (even if I might act like it sometimes). I'm competent linguistically, though for years relied on written communication as face to face I didn't come over well. All the same I could interview people and write up what I got from interviews well.

    I read about it often that it seems schools still confuse aspergers with learning disability and think that confident performance in a classroom situation contradicts an aspergers diagnoses. But aspergers, aside from environmental sensitivity, narrow interests, organisational issues etc is about social dynamics, and not being able to read social situations well or identify collectively arrived at states of mind. This doesn't prevent performing well in class if the class is structured, organised and predictable.

    My brief encounter with journalism lasted four months. I've still got clippings of the articles I wrote, a long time ago now, and I was writing competently and getting a good feel for the situation. But I did prefer factual writing from research rather than interview. I love regurgitating facts.

    What killed the job after four months was not fitting in - catastrophically not fitting in. I couldn't comprehend the wry humour and couldn't respond properly to the people I worked with. The job deteriorated as I got more and more bogged down in workplace relations.

    That is widely the problem for adults with aspergers. We may be perfectly capable of doing a good job to a high standard. But we haven't a hope of fitting into the social dynamics of the job. Same is true in school.

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