My lads have just started getting some 1:1 support outside school (they both have ft 1:1 in school - youngest 2:1 as required). This support is to enable them to have some sort of social life without us. They are both teenagers and require adult supervision, but they have the right to do things without parents there! As any teen would want. My eldest is 15 and my youngest turns 14 tomorrow.
So they have support workers, and they do things that teens like to do - bowling, cinema etc.
But the organisation refers to it as 'Sits'
as in "we've booked X in for a Sit next wednesday"
I am really uncomfortable with it.
It feels like Babysit.
I feel like it infantalises them.
But am I being oversensitive? If I am, then I will accept that with good grace. But if you think I am not, what alternative terms do you think would be more appropriate? I was thinking about raising it and suggesting alternatives.
Here are some suggested organisations that offer expert advice on special needs.
SN children
Am I being oversensitive re terminology?
Vitalstatistix · 21/08/2014 13:54
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