HI, my son has a diagnosis of ASD and attends a mainsteam school, he is currently struggling in some lessons with regards to laughing/ sniggering sometimes it is appropriately and others not, sometimes it can be an anxious laugh and others he could be laughing at not know what he is laughing at, most of his teachers follow the advice given to them on behalf of the ASD input team as they observed him doing it in a lesson, they suggested tghe teacher have a calm word with him and if he still continues then they should ask him calmly to go outside the classroom until he calms down, this works great with most teachers as they understand him however a couple of teachers and when they have a supply teacher end up not following the guidelines and it ends up with a few other pupils(usually girls) telling him to shut up then the name calling starts and when he responds to their actions he is the one that gets into trouble.
I have spoken with the head of year after another episode on Friday and she suggests that we try and let him know what is and isnt appropriate to laugh at but we do that anyway also the teachers would have to do that too, can anyone suggest anything else we could try.
