the background questions were easy enough, I kept a note of everything from way back when I was first concerned, and keep a record of his behaviours at home, spent all monring at preschool making notes and getting the full lowdown from the playleader, and also scrawling the language nad playskills you would expect of an almost 4 year old from their dfes reference books!...
Its the how his needs should be met questions I'm clueles on, I've been warned we'll be lucky to get funding for an echo 10 hours a week, so the additional info section looks set to be another essay, the boy [bless his heart] has NO sense of danger and will copy things if he likes the response someone else gets for what hey hae done [and this is normally if someone has really hurt themself] he has a freakish pain threshold so needs someone with him al the time tomake sure he doesn't decide to climb onto a radtitor and for example fall out he living room window... he has no regard for crs or road safety, I'm currently training him on a wrist rein to walk to and from the primary school he's due to attend as of jan 07, he still leaps for the road and tries to look at any car he see's, I broke my foot last year retrieving him from the path of an oncoming paramedic vehichle [and did it stop, did it b*ggery].. what hsa really hit home though, above all teh rest of it, is his language problems, he jargonises nad uses less then 10 words meaningfully, which is baout what you'd expect from a 12-15 month old, he's 4 in july, and they can't test his receptive language levels, because cognitively he isn't at a stage where even basic tests are appropriate..
But i'm amused by 'what are you concerns?' ma I allowed to write, I am concerned that elijah willbe offered minimal support and expected to cope in mainstream schooling despite developmentally being aproximatley half his chronological age, that without the full itme 1:1 he needs his behaviour is goign t e directly affected, his stims will return, he'll regress back to that angry terifying little ball of fury who everyone told me was 'normal', worried that the system will fail him completely and he'll never be given the chance to progres bieng about 2 years old mentally.
I'm ever hopefull they'll recommend special school, theres a school about 20 miles away whihc is exclusively for ASD, they can go from 2-19 years of age, its n our LEA so we'd get help wit transport surely... though inthe pit of my stomach theres the love dread that stupid legislation and beuracracy is going to prevail and he'll get a note in lieu and basically be left ot deteriorate, unless I hock a kidney to pay for a private LSA... I need a cup of green tea with black currant I think... that or a nice soothing brandy!