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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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  • Hi, my son is 7 years old and attends a mainstream school. He has autism and has a statement where he receives 25 hours a week support. I was given a timetable, upon my request to see what 1-1 support he is receiving . An assistant has been with him since he was 5,but she doesnt do a lot of work with him. When i asked the main teacher about this she said that there is other children in the class that need support.Ireplied that my son has been given these hours for him not the other children.His grades are generally below average and i feel that if the school were to concentrate on working more with my son the grades would improve.I have a meeting with the new senco next week but i am not very confident that i will be able to change anything. Any help advice or comments would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Hi, my son is 7 years old and attends a mainstream school. He has autism and has a statement where he receives 25 hours a week support. I was given a timetable, upon my request to see what 1-1 support he is receiving . An assistant has been with him since he was 5,but she doesnt do a lot of work with him. When i asked the main teacher about this she said that there is other children in the class that need support.Ireplied that my son has been given these hours for him not the other children.His grades are generally below average and i feel that if the school were to concentrate on working more with my son the grades would improve.I have a meeting with the new senco next week but i am not very confident that i will be able to change anything. Any help advice or comments would be greatly appreciated.

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