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Luna Lovegood

My son has been very recently diagnosed with ASD. He is high functioning in some areas (maths teachers love him but the English teacher is tearing her hair out). can any one give any advice on what to do next. I know the school has been written to but I'm not sure what my expectations should be from them. My son has struggled all the way through school with 'the chaotic classroom' and lessons like art, drama and languages where there is a lot of group work and discussion have been an area of difficulty for him as have supply teachers (in fact they take him out when there is a supply and put him in inclusion). He needs to get out of the room when he gets overloaded particularly if a teacher starts shouting and he has previously been suspended from school for 'assault on an adult' when he has barged past in his desperation to get out of the room. This was in his previous school and the school we have him in at the moment have been a Lott better with him. 

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  • My daughter is also 13.  She had a very good primary school experience and her first high school was good but then I moved to be closer to family and the high school she is now registered with have been rubbish.  Its huge (1800) and they have mixed ability classes which hasn't worked for my daughter.  Also, she was observed to be fine because she was good at hiding how terrified she was.  They said she was always smiling but I saw that smile when I took her back for a meeting and it was like something from a horror film.  How they never spotted it, I don't know.  She stopped going in November and I'm fighting the LA to get her statemented and for some appropriate education.  I've been lucky that the Learning Centre now have some involvement and they've got her doing two afternoon and a morning of activities which gets her out of the house.

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  • My daughter is also 13.  She had a very good primary school experience and her first high school was good but then I moved to be closer to family and the high school she is now registered with have been rubbish.  Its huge (1800) and they have mixed ability classes which hasn't worked for my daughter.  Also, she was observed to be fine because she was good at hiding how terrified she was.  They said she was always smiling but I saw that smile when I took her back for a meeting and it was like something from a horror film.  How they never spotted it, I don't know.  She stopped going in November and I'm fighting the LA to get her statemented and for some appropriate education.  I've been lucky that the Learning Centre now have some involvement and they've got her doing two afternoon and a morning of activities which gets her out of the house.

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