16 year old DS was home educated for three years from 12-15, then he spent six months at an outreach education centre but didn't have time to take any GCSEs.
The professionals who worked with him set up an option for the coming academic year and I found another one. The first course would provide him with work experience, and ASDAN qualifications. The second is the kind of course that you pass by attending it all year, and is aimed at building his confidence.
He had no strong opinions of his own and just passively went along with what we suggested - until today. He has informed me that he wants to get a degree in Game Art Design. It's a pretty good choice for him actually, he's artistic and he loves gaming. But he will have to take GCSEs and then A Levels to apply for the course.
He doesn't want to start either course that was set up for him, he wants to start moving toward the degree. This has completely thrown me. As a school leaver is he even able to access GCSEs now? There is no way he could go into a school environment with a bunch of 14 year olds! I have googled our local colleges and only found Maths and English GCSEs.
Connexions is only accessible through schools in Oxfordshire so I can't approach them, and his autism outreach worker stopped seeing him at the end of his last academic term.
If any of you can recommend a good source for advice I would appreciate it! If he was 35 I know he could take an access course, but I assume they aren't designed with 16 year olds in mind! I also think that doing A Levels in tandem with GCSEs would be too much for him.
I thought everything was organised, I was even a bit smug that I'd kept another option on the back burner - and now my brain is frazzled...