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autism in mainstream school

chris and carly

hi everyone, first time post as ive never found i needed advice but this has me confused. my daughter is 4 and a half in a mainstream school. she has a statement of educational needs which includes the need for her to have supervised help at all times. when talking to her teacher the other day she mentioned one of her tantrums came from the fact her one to one teacher was helping another student as her class is busy. is this not correct as theoretically this support teacher is my daughters? another question is about attendance, some days it is physically impossible for my daughter to learn, her teacher tells us when she has a 'rage' her words not mine, that she affects the learning of all sfudents and is unteachable herself. this is fair enough but days when my daughter is like this the headteacher advised us to maybe keep her off school. its maybe once a week, if that. now he has told us her attendance is unacceptable and is taking no responsibilty. is a child with a statement 100% obliged in attendance than other children. sorry for the rambles but its reallg affecting us as her teacher seems to be bringing up the name of the local disability school more and more when anyone that meets my girl says they never suspect her to have autism. thank you

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  • Hello, Yes I agree with mumof3. My son who is now 8, did not like his nursery school and also had a lot of time off school when he was in reception class at 4 yrs (in fact for reasons similar to what you have said, kept being sent home because he was 'upset'). I had no come backs at all, no letters of about attendance, nothing and we pulled him out of the nursery school without de-registering so he missed roughly 5 months.

    By the sounds of things they are using the statement for their own benefits, after all they will of gained a TA at no cost to them if you think about it. The 1-1 support is for your child and your child only. You can ask the school if the staff caring for your daughter have been trained in ASD if not you can request that they are, that should clear up the 'rages' which the teacher refers to. As mentioned above contact the school via e-mail (should they try to block all attempts of written correspondence, I would see that as a little sign that things aren't as they should be) in my mind if there is nothing to hide it would be beneficial for both parties to have information documented for reference. Time should not be an issue. It would take 5 minutes to read an email and 5 minutes to respond which to me would be far more easier than arranging a meeting with numerous staff members and spending 30-60 minutes discussing? (the excuse used by my sons school).

    If you have no joy with the school contact the education department I am sure they will happily look into it seeing as they have provided the funding using your daughters individual needs.

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  • Hello, Yes I agree with mumof3. My son who is now 8, did not like his nursery school and also had a lot of time off school when he was in reception class at 4 yrs (in fact for reasons similar to what you have said, kept being sent home because he was 'upset'). I had no come backs at all, no letters of about attendance, nothing and we pulled him out of the nursery school without de-registering so he missed roughly 5 months.

    By the sounds of things they are using the statement for their own benefits, after all they will of gained a TA at no cost to them if you think about it. The 1-1 support is for your child and your child only. You can ask the school if the staff caring for your daughter have been trained in ASD if not you can request that they are, that should clear up the 'rages' which the teacher refers to. As mentioned above contact the school via e-mail (should they try to block all attempts of written correspondence, I would see that as a little sign that things aren't as they should be) in my mind if there is nothing to hide it would be beneficial for both parties to have information documented for reference. Time should not be an issue. It would take 5 minutes to read an email and 5 minutes to respond which to me would be far more easier than arranging a meeting with numerous staff members and spending 30-60 minutes discussing? (the excuse used by my sons school).

    If you have no joy with the school contact the education department I am sure they will happily look into it seeing as they have provided the funding using your daughters individual needs.

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