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george

My son matthew is 6 years old and is in mainstream school. he has a Statement and gets lots of support from a very nice teaching assistant who is with him most of the time. He seems reasonably happy, however he does not really play with his peers and is falling further and further behind his classmates academically. I recently visited a Special Needs school and was very impressed. I am now beginning to reconsider my earlier decision to keep him in a mainstream school. Although he gets lots of support is he been taught in the correct way, self esteem etc etc does anyone have any views?

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  • hey! we visited daldorch and were very impressed. we would love our high functioning asd boy to go as it was set up brilliantly and catered for the acadmic and social and sensory needs, but have been told as he is high functioning it is a no go at all. he struggles at mainstream with bullying that is very violent. the school are not interested in movement breaks or a class or playground assistant to help. his teacher this year is great but last years told him he was awful and horrible!

    we are struggling to get an acceptable csp just now it just seems like all the educational psychologist says is no!

    i want my son to be happy at school and learn social interaction is nice as all he is learning now is that he gets hurt and then gets punished for it.

    why is it so hard to get help for our kids?

    if possible i would go with a special school whether the child is high or low functioning.

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  • hey! we visited daldorch and were very impressed. we would love our high functioning asd boy to go as it was set up brilliantly and catered for the acadmic and social and sensory needs, but have been told as he is high functioning it is a no go at all. he struggles at mainstream with bullying that is very violent. the school are not interested in movement breaks or a class or playground assistant to help. his teacher this year is great but last years told him he was awful and horrible!

    we are struggling to get an acceptable csp just now it just seems like all the educational psychologist says is no!

    i want my son to be happy at school and learn social interaction is nice as all he is learning now is that he gets hurt and then gets punished for it.

    why is it so hard to get help for our kids?

    if possible i would go with a special school whether the child is high or low functioning.

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