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Autistic Child Gets Attacked At School And The School Won’t Do Anything About It

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my child has recently got attacked by a girl in her year due to my child asking her a question on her presentation. this girl proceeded to go for my child and attempt to push her which almost ended up with her falling down stairs if she did not keep her balance. my child’s body shut down and went straight into a meltdown once she realized what happened. the school are not taking it in mind that my child is autistic and can not cope with people shouting, especially in her face. people touching her and too much going on at once that it is too overwhelming. this girl is not getting a big punishment and we as parents want to fight for our daughter as no one should get away with doing that to an autistic child like this girl has. any advice???

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  • It is not reasonable to expect disproportionate punishment for what sounds like a minor piece of 'argy-bargy'. The basic problem is not what the girl did, but the extent of the reaction that it caused in your child. School is not a pleasant place for autistic children, I know that from first-hand experience, and the choice for parents is to keep their children in mainstream school, while demanding reasonable accommodations, plus hoping that the autistic child develops more resilience, or put the child in specialised schooling, or to home-school. Reasonable accommodation would not, in my opinion, include continuous adult supervision so that your child never has any negative interactions with other children, but would include having a access to a quiet place when overwhelmed. What you describe does not sound like systematic bullying, but a sudden flare up of anger. No child can be expected to fully understand that their actions can have more profound effects on certain people more than on the general run of their classmates, therefore expecting that a child be punished more severely for any action because of its unusual consequences, is unreasonable.

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  • It is not reasonable to expect disproportionate punishment for what sounds like a minor piece of 'argy-bargy'. The basic problem is not what the girl did, but the extent of the reaction that it caused in your child. School is not a pleasant place for autistic children, I know that from first-hand experience, and the choice for parents is to keep their children in mainstream school, while demanding reasonable accommodations, plus hoping that the autistic child develops more resilience, or put the child in specialised schooling, or to home-school. Reasonable accommodation would not, in my opinion, include continuous adult supervision so that your child never has any negative interactions with other children, but would include having a access to a quiet place when overwhelmed. What you describe does not sound like systematic bullying, but a sudden flare up of anger. No child can be expected to fully understand that their actions can have more profound effects on certain people more than on the general run of their classmates, therefore expecting that a child be punished more severely for any action because of its unusual consequences, is unreasonable.

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