DS is in Yr 9. They have summer tests at school. Although he is very bright and gets good grades for course work, he always falls apart in exams and gets very low grades, way below pass mark. His autism has always affected him by creating fugue states not tantrums when he is stressed. In exams, he appears to go into fugues and then not have time to finish papers, or just stares at questions he'd know the answer to in class, but they don't make sense to him because he's so stressed/fugued.
Does anyone have any advice on strategies he or I can use to help him manage stress? I really want him to have learned to cope before GCSEs and he takes a long time to process new ideas, so I want to start now, so he'll be OK in two years time.
Any books, websites, anecdotal personal advice really welcome. Thanks.
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notagiraffe · 19/04/2016 10:33
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