Sibling admission - Aspergers - Any advice please?

[debra79]

Hi, I am hoping to get some advice as I have exhausted all other channels. My son has AS and in yr 7 mainstream. Although not perfect situation (I wanted him to go to another school which also had a unit for autistic children but out of my catchment), he was rejected a statement therefore I had no other option. His current school however was deemed next best for him as his friends from juniors school were going there (Well, one boy he gets on with) but is 3 miles from home. My daughter has been attending the pre-school on my son's school campus and I chose the primary school (also on campus) for her to move to yr R this sept. She was rejected and I just lost the appeal also (Only parent appealing, would have caused prejudice to class size in yrs 1 & 2). If I put my daughter in a school close by one of them will need to be late in and after school. I will lose my part-time job as I will not be able to me in work on time and will have to leave earlier which my employers have already said they could not accommodate. Noone seems to help so in a month's time I am basically facing unemployment whilst sitting at home with my daughter out of education. Very confused as to what to do next. Your help will be much appriciated.

Is there someone, perhaps a childminder who already collects children, you could pay to do drop off and pick up?

Wait-list your daughter, and either keep her in nursery a bit longer (depends when she turns 5) or use any reception class with a breakfast club. Son's AS should mean school give him some preference for homework clubs, sports clubs etc as needs the additional support.

[presuming dd has been at nursery or childminder while you're at work?]

or reapply for statutory assessment early in september after accumulating evidence of secondary being harder than primary (duh!)

Grounds for wanting SA are 'look i told you so'. The technical translation you actually write might need advice by ipsea

Thank you for the advice. No I have no child-minder and unlikely to be able to afford one. My daughter was attending pre-school and receiving the government allowance on the days I worked. I will re-apply for Stat Assess but this will take a long-time. None of the nearest schools have availability or breakfast/after school clubs and I'm not sure how i'd feel about my 4 year old attending school for that long at her age. At the moment she can be out of school til Jan but I have not a clue what will happen then?

Should also add the school which I was hoping to stay on waiting list called this morning and explained that there is probably no chance a place will come available based on the distance and small size of the school. They informed me that they have only ever placed no 1 on the waiting list and even that was rare