Hello, I was wondering if anyone had any advice. DS is dx'd with ASD & ADHD and has been at his current MS school the last few years. All was well at first and they were really supportive and instrumental in him finally getting his diagnosis (he went many years as do others struggling whilst being undiagnosed).
Communication has broken down over the last year and I am unsure how to handle it. I won't flood the page with tonnes of info but will include a handful of things first as I also don't want to dripfeed or be too identifying.
He has many traits including no perception of hazard awareness, no sense of danger, becoming increasingly frustrated / anxious / tearful when he can't complete a task. A good example of this is he recently spoke about how during a maths test he 'knew the answers but couldn't work it out' (it was a test that required showing the working out and his brain simply couldn't 'process' it) and was told it was because he couldnt be bothered (this was by a TA who was there temp and I'm not sure they knew of his condition). He also doesn't like loud or sudden noises and he has never been able to do eye contact. When we last had parents evening - he played on his DS whilst the teacher talked to us and he replied to every question the teacher asked him, he just couldn't look at them. DS told me he recently got scolded by the HT for being 'extremely rude' when they were speaking to him and he couldn't look at them.
Thing is I'm not very good at being assertive and need some tips on how to approach this. Anyone any advice please?
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Mary2019 · 05/04/2019 13:35
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