Help with questions to the mainstream school my son is due to start in september.

Hi,

My Son is due to start mainstream primary school in September. He has been diagnosed with Autism and this is all still very new to me as living in the south hams there is no earlybird courses to attend. He isn't good at communication and talks very little, yes/no and repeats various television programmes. He has very few social skills, still in nappies yet is above intelligence in numbers, alphabet etc.

We have a meeting with the school and all professionals involved on wednesday. I am just wondering if anyone has any questions they feel are important that i should be asking the school at the meeting. My portage worker has a few but i don't really know where to start. The head is very good at talking, almost a politician and i seem to get swept along! Thanks, Karen

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  • thank you that has helped alot. i will question then about their knowledge etc. Yes we are in the middle of the statement process. We should hear by the end of the month what level of statement he should be getting. We haven't looked into other schools as i think we are quite limited due to where we live. We are in a village in the south milton south Devon so are going with our local School. Also we have a 6 year old who already goes there so getting them both to school would be tricky but i am now beginning to think if there are any in the plymouth area or the Torquay area we may have to look into it more. Will see what the meeting brings. Thank you for the reply, this website has been so helpful.

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  • thank you that has helped alot. i will question then about their knowledge etc. Yes we are in the middle of the statement process. We should hear by the end of the month what level of statement he should be getting. We haven't looked into other schools as i think we are quite limited due to where we live. We are in a village in the south milton south Devon so are going with our local School. Also we have a 6 year old who already goes there so getting them both to school would be tricky but i am now beginning to think if there are any in the plymouth area or the Torquay area we may have to look into it more. Will see what the meeting brings. Thank you for the reply, this website has been so helpful.

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