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A statement for my HFA daughter year 7!

tbag

Hi all

Just to update you all and offer hope to others;

My now 12 year old daughter has been given a statement and a place in a school with a base for autism! (massive sigh of relief!). This is despite having good literacy skills and her primary school and high school (which she only attended 8 times!) both telling the Educational psychologist that they didn't notice any problems. If you read my previous postings you will see my daughter had massive problems at school, but all of the suffering was her's. She was well behaved and did her work, thats all that mattered to them! It has been a real struggle to get her any support, she is passive autistic and has a blank expression that doesn't show signs of distress until she gets home and lets it all out. Her cognative age was 7 on the psychologists test, the school did not notice!!!!

But we have got there in the end! This is hopefully the start of proper help and understanding for her! :)

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  • Hi Intenseworld,

    thank you so much, your support on here has made the whole stressful process a lot easier to cope with. Is there not a PM on here?It would be great to share stories with someone who can relate! My daughter was signed off school on medical grounds as 'anxious school refuser'. The EP had to do a home visit! She has a place in a school with specialist provision for autism to start in sept. In the meantime she has a home tutor 4 times a week, funded on medical grounds. I aslo have a son who will be 4 in june, he was diagnosed with autism, sensory processing difficulties and developmental delays 2 days after turning 3. Because he is more severe, support is always more easily given for him, whereas my daughter everything has been a battle. It doesn't make sense, as he is very happy most of the time, while my daughter was in great distress!

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  • Hi Intenseworld,

    thank you so much, your support on here has made the whole stressful process a lot easier to cope with. Is there not a PM on here?It would be great to share stories with someone who can relate! My daughter was signed off school on medical grounds as 'anxious school refuser'. The EP had to do a home visit! She has a place in a school with specialist provision for autism to start in sept. In the meantime she has a home tutor 4 times a week, funded on medical grounds. I aslo have a son who will be 4 in june, he was diagnosed with autism, sensory processing difficulties and developmental delays 2 days after turning 3. Because he is more severe, support is always more easily given for him, whereas my daughter everything has been a battle. It doesn't make sense, as he is very happy most of the time, while my daughter was in great distress!

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