Published on 12, July, 2020
My son has Aspergers and will be 15 soon. He has started working towards GCSE's. The problem is he just won't revise. Then when it's time to sit an assessment or actual exam papers (he's sat two already) he panics and gets really upset that he's going to fail. So because of this he now has the thought that hes going to fail anyway so what's the point? Has anyone got any ideas how I can get him to first of all revise and secondly to teach him how to stop getting into a state?
Have you spoken to school and had a meeting with the SENCO? Do you have a statement or EHCP? Have you spoken to individual subject teachers? Does the school have a revision programme etc? Do you know which subjects they are best at and likely grades being expected?
Recommend you write to school by sending an email to the Headteacher expressing your concerns and asking them what they are going to do to help your child? Request a meeting and go from there to get a plan.
We did all this and our son did his GCSEs last year, was also very difficult to get him to focus and concentrate on revision. However his learning style is not atypical. Organisation does not come easily to him.Took us a while to work our his system and agree with him what his revision style was. Also important when he had his exams that he could relax and de-stress after each exam, his was playing piano, going to the gym and watching documentaries and playing rugby ( real rugby not a video game). We had more meltdowns and anxiety attacks during the exams and the run up, but as that was expected we were prepared to deal with it.
He ended up with an A*, 6 A's, 2B's and 2C's.