DD (13) is at her second secondary school, repeating year 7 as she missed so much the first time. She has Aspergers and is very academic as well as a gifted musician.
She was not supported at all ny the first state secondary school and b the February half term was unable to attend at all. We applied for and got a statement naming a small independent mainstream school with full time one to one support and speech therapy to help with the selective mutism which developed at the first school.
We were so hopeful that this was going to work for her. The first term seemed to go well. She was speaking a bit, attendance was good and she even managed some homework! But since then she has got more and more anxious, started missing a lot of days and mostly spending her time at home in her room sleeping. The school are lovely and couldn't do more for her. They recently dropped subjects such as drama from her timetable as they were so stressful for her and to give her quiet time.
However this weekend she has had two very worrying and debilitating panic attacks. She is already being seen by CAMHS and we have an emergency appointment tomorrow.
This battle about school has now been going on for two years and the whole family is badly affected by it. I also have a DS (8). I just want my daughter back and think we just can't do this to her anymore. She's given secondary school a good try and it's just not working.
Has anyone else been in this position? We just don't know where we go from here.
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