Dd15 has diagnosed autism, hasn't attended school since year 8 due to crippling anxiety. She is still enrolled with school, with no intention to return but has 5 hours home tuition and due to sit English language and maths gcse this year (she will sit at home and has already done English lit last year).
She is doing really well at the moment. We had CAMHS involvement for around 2 years but talking therapy has now stopped, although she still sees psychiatrist as she is medicated with fluoxetine. She knows that she wants to do animal care at college but also agrees with me that it will be a huge jump going from being at home to that. I have found a college local for autistic kids and basically helping them transition to more independence and they can also sit GCSE’s/a levels there. Fingers crossed she will get a place.
I'm not sure what to do with GCSE’s this year. As she has missed so much time at school she is obviously behind. Her tutor at the moment is great when actually teaching but she's highly unorganised. Always late (even though she knows I have arranged my work times around lessons and I'm on a tight schedule), changing lesson times, cancelling. But then constantly stressed about how much catching up dd has to do. I'm finding it a lot and I don't know whether to just scrap exams this year and say she's doing them next year? I will still carry on tutor lessons but it won't be so stressful with all the swapping/cancelling as dd won't be under so much pressure? I don't really want to change tutors as dd has built a relationship and she won't feel comfortable with someone new in the time until exams. I kind of feel like this is the right thing to do but worry I'm letting dd down. She says she has no preference.