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Punishment at school

mavis

My 13 year old son has, after alot of years of being fobbed off and waiting, just been diagnosed with autism.

Been to see the school he attends (mainstream), and am unsure they're going to do what they say they will.  However am waiting for CIR referral so hopefully that will help.  However my problem at the moment is my son is spending a fair amount of time in isolation because of his behaviour.  Don't get me wrong if he hits another boy around the head for stealing his ball during a PE lesson then he deserves chastising.  Is putting him in isolation for half the day allowed, or even the answer.  Surely putting a child with autism in isolation is how they spend half their life anyway,  how is shutting him off more even going to help.  Would welcome anyones help or advise.  Very new to all of this and have alot to learn!!

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  • My son spent many a happy hour in Isolation. In fact on more than one occasion he went down to the Isolation room and tried to check himself in. He loved it because if he was lucky the supervising teacher would allow him to talk about his special interest, and staff always said he got far more work done in there than in class. The distractions in class just made him anxious and being in the booths in the isolation room was perfect for him.

    I made the point to the Head that it wasn't actually punishing him, but they did spend quite some time in there talking to him about his behaviour. Amazingly he did get to the point in Year 11 where he had an Ise-free year.

    What I would say is that for us it worked as part of a strategy to make him understand the effect his behaviour had on others. If they just put him in there to get him out of the way, then I agree it is of little or no value. I think you should talk to the SENCo and see what their approach is.

    And beware, because after Isolation comes Exclusion and that is a much trickier thing to deal with.

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  • My son spent many a happy hour in Isolation. In fact on more than one occasion he went down to the Isolation room and tried to check himself in. He loved it because if he was lucky the supervising teacher would allow him to talk about his special interest, and staff always said he got far more work done in there than in class. The distractions in class just made him anxious and being in the booths in the isolation room was perfect for him.

    I made the point to the Head that it wasn't actually punishing him, but they did spend quite some time in there talking to him about his behaviour. Amazingly he did get to the point in Year 11 where he had an Ise-free year.

    What I would say is that for us it worked as part of a strategy to make him understand the effect his behaviour had on others. If they just put him in there to get him out of the way, then I agree it is of little or no value. I think you should talk to the SENCo and see what their approach is.

    And beware, because after Isolation comes Exclusion and that is a much trickier thing to deal with.

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