DS3 is due to start school in Sept 2013, so we have been advised to start looking round at schools now. I really don't know whether he'd be better off in a MS or a SN school. He is currently awaiting an ADOS (seems like we've been waiting forever
) and most of the professionals he's been involved with seem to think it likely he'll get an ASD diagnosis. He currently attends both a SN and a MS pre-school and does get a lot from copying other children. I think socially he'd get more out of a MS school, but academically, he really needs 1to 1 as he finds it difficult to follow instructions and learns much more quickly if someone is talking directly to him, if that makes sense. We've been told we're unlikely to get a statement as they've all but got rid of them in our area (we're one of the 2 areas in the country piloting Pupil Resource Agreements which are not legally enforceable but which are allocated to children deemed needing extra support in schools). Our borough has upped the criteria for those they grant statements to , so hardly anyone gets one.
I am finding it really hard to make a decision, as his brothers are settled in school (which I already have to take a bus to get to as I don't drive), so I don't really want to move them. I thought I'd know what was best for DS3 but I don't.