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jenk1 · 21/03/2006 09:29

Got a letter this morning to say that on Thu at DS school there will be a meeting between school(thats a first) EWO,Pscyh,home tuition lady-Grin, headteacher(flippin eck) and moi and i will be taking Parent Partnership, DH and my aunty who is a deputy head-just retired and knows the system inside out.

Now, psych is going to say -definately not autistic but complex needs with autistic traits, do i bite my tongue and give her evil looks like last time or should i tell them that we disagree and that another psych will be asessing DS or will that be like lighting the torch paper-if thats the saying.

Got this mood about me that i feel like telling psych where she can stick her parenting course but, then i dont want to make any more enemies do i?

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jenk1 · 23/03/2006 15:32

It went really really well Smile

DS starts his first session with the home tutor on Monday, then he will see her for the two weeks after that just one morning a week to ease him gently back into education.
Then after the easter holidays she will come to the house to see him again and then start taking him to school for one morning a week, then they are going to try him in his class for an hour sometime in May and see how he goes on and then we have another meeting the week before May half term to discuss his progress and see how we go from there.

Headteacher "Does Ds have a dx"?
Psych, "Erm no but i am of the opinion that he has many autistic traits because you can have autistic traits without an autism dx, but he definately is not ASD" Angry
I kept my mouth shut as did DH because we decided that we will have our say at the next meeting when we will hopefully bring along the private psych who is coming Mon afternoon to see us and DS.

Headteacher said "So when can i expect DS to be back in school full time"?
Psych "I dont know, i cant give you a time, DS has been unwell as we all know and its dependant upon him and how he copes, im not having him pressured into anything that will make him ill again" Grin
The home tuition lady and the SEN lady also jumped in and said that with children who are absent from school due to medical reasons that you cannot rush them otherwise you just end right back where you first started.

After the meeting psych asked could she come to our house to tell DS what was happening as she has promised him that she will keep him informed about everything, so she came back with us and (you should have seen his face when she walked in, he was not impressed!)

Anyway she explained things to him, he got upset when she mentioned school and started saying "No not that stupid school no no"
She reassured him that he will only attend school when he feels ready to do so.

Me and DH feel so relieved that we are being listened to and that no one is rushing DS.

The only time i lost my temper was when the headteacher mentioned his unauthorised absence.
I said WHAT UNAUTHORISED ABSENCE YOU HAVE PROFF THAT HE IS MEDICALLY UNFIT, she looked worried and looked towards the EWO lady who said that there was medical evidence now, so headteacher said "Are you now telling me to mark him down as authorised"? to which the EWO said yes.
Seems that noone from EWO talks to headteacher but then she,s not much cop.
Psychologist asked her about the new school and the headteachers job to which she said "i havent got it" I nearly fell off my chair laughing Grin

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amynnixmum · 23/03/2006 17:26

I'm really glad things went so well jenkGrin Good luck with the private psych assessment.

jenk1 · 23/03/2006 19:27

Yes, we are looking forward to Monday now, hopefully we might get some answers on what DS condition is.

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tobysmumkent · 24/03/2006 09:43

Glad it went well for you (and your DS)! Pleased that they seem prepared to go at your DS's pace now and not pressurise him!

And congratulations for keeping calm over the "autistic traits but not...." bit. (don't think I could have done that, if I was in your position!!)

Hope it all goes well with eventual dx for you, too.

jenk1 · 24/03/2006 09:56

thanks tmk, i emailed the psych who is coming to see us on Monday to tell him how it went, he said that Lorna Wing always says "if it looks like a duck,walks like a duck,talks like a duck, then it is a duck"!
If there is the triad of impairments like there is with DS then there is ASD, plain and simple, he said that he prescribes rest and recuperation in a darkened room for me and DH!!!

We are looking forward to his visit on Monday as he seems to really know his stuff and is listening to what me and DH are saying instead of trying to fob us off. Smile

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