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Absconding from school again

ParentingAutism

I don't know what to do. My daughter, goes to a school specialising in autism and always has 2 staff, yet she can still escape from school. Yesterday she came home battered and bruised from jumping the garden fence, which is quite tall. She is a quick and smart runner and will do her vest to escape. She knows her way round the area and yesterday was out of site for a while. They spotted her and she kept losing them. After an hour, she went back to school with a member of staff. She was apparently darting infront of traffic in order to run away. 

It's scary because I don't know how to help. She ran because there was an issue with staff and they gave her other options to who she can have but she didn't want any. How do we keep her safe. She is a quick runner and is able to run down the road before staff manage to get out the front of the school. Im just scared for her own safety. 

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  • This may sound mad but what about an adult collage? She must be 15 going on 16 now? Most adult collages will take you at 16. You could enrol her only in courses she has an interest in. Its a lot more flexible as a learning environment. (based on my memory of GCSE / A level maths / english) A mix of classes, workshops and self study. You can generally sit in class for an hour or 2 then retreat to a quiet space like the library. Or the quite corner of a workshop when you can wave at an assistant if you're ready for help. If you get board out of class it's no big deal to go for a break then come back another time because workshops are all day things.

    Things like physics and chemistry are a bit more restrictive because you do experiments under supervision but you still have short classes with decent gaps in between (because they have to be flexible for adult learners with difficult scheduling issues.)

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  • This may sound mad but what about an adult collage? She must be 15 going on 16 now? Most adult collages will take you at 16. You could enrol her only in courses she has an interest in. Its a lot more flexible as a learning environment. (based on my memory of GCSE / A level maths / english) A mix of classes, workshops and self study. You can generally sit in class for an hour or 2 then retreat to a quiet space like the library. Or the quite corner of a workshop when you can wave at an assistant if you're ready for help. If you get board out of class it's no big deal to go for a break then come back another time because workshops are all day things.

    Things like physics and chemistry are a bit more restrictive because you do experiments under supervision but you still have short classes with decent gaps in between (because they have to be flexible for adult learners with difficult scheduling issues.)

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