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I have a 7yr old dc with asd and dyspraxia. He was diagnosed age 3 with quite severe symptoms - language delay, outbursts etc.
He's come on leaps and bounds since then and is doing well academically, has a circle of friends and is well behaved at school.
His main issue now is that due to being poor at organising his thoughts he is extremely forgetful. He leaves his pencils, jumpers, coats, gloves etc wherever he puts them down and loses things all the time and forgets to give his completed homework in.
He is becoming very anxious about it as he is getting into trouble for it all the time and is embarrassed that it makes him stand out. For eg when the older children bring round lost property the teacher will say 'surprise surprise its X again' and it makes him really embarrassed. He also has to move his name down the chart when he forgets things. A few times he has come home and told me that he has been able to move his name up for good work in maths but has then had to move it straight back down because he left his jumper/pen or whatever in the maths classroom.
He also often has to miss break because he forgets to give his homework in when it is completed in his bag. Even missing break he doesn't make the connection that he just needs to get it from his bag as he doesn't remember having done it!
My question is what can I do or reasonably expect the school to do to help him organise himself? I get that they are trying to encourage him to be independent but they have been sanctioning him for forgetting things since September now and there's been no improvement. It wasn't an issue in infants as they were more lenient and tas would generally put things in and retrieve them from bags.
Any advice appreciated particularly if you work in a school or are a parent of a child with similar issues.
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BlueMirror · 23/01/2018 15:16
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