DD is in high-school.
She is under assessment waiting list for Autism by CAHMS. School is generally very supportive.
She has counselling in school weekly because of past trauma.
Her confidence is very, very low and she has genuine communication issues.
She finds it very hard to use her voice and every parents evening it's the same thing "Lovely girl, smart, does her homework but needs to work on speaking up in class as she's way too quiet and lacks confidence" Some teachers said they have never heard her speak!
DD has been quiet all weekend. I finally got it out of her that she needs to do a presentation in media studies, to another class.
She's been sobbing her heart out.
I said I would ring the teacher tomorrow to talk about it but DD said she's not actually in tomorrow, which makes little sense if it's the day of the presentation??
They have a different teacher on Mondays and could be anyone she said.
I said I would ring the head of year but shes extremely busy and sometimes you can't get hold of her same day.
I told DD that if I can't speak to anyone by the time the lesson starts tomorrow to just go to the office and ask them to ring me.
I understand kids sometimes have to do things they don't want to do. But it's much deeper than tha with DD and I'm worried about it setting her back in general.
AIBU to just tell her to not go to the lesson if I haven't managed to sort anything out before hand? Like her being able to do the presentation 1 on 1 with a teacher or for some of her close friends?