Went to see two units today. One was an ASD unit and one was a Language unit. The Language unit was lovely. I don't know that will meet ds's every need as the visual element isn't that evident. He has a diagnosis of ASD but most of his difficulties centre round Sp and L rather than other issues , so Lang unit was thought very appropriate. The hour I spent at the ASD unit was one of the most depressing I have ever had. I felt the children were 'contained'! There was no obvious organisation, the displays were non existant and there were a few activities lying around. I wanted to go in and say "let me paint this room and do some art work of any sort with the children and then mount it nicely and put it on the walls". The teachers seemed to be slumped and going through the motions. Please, tell me that there are other places that might be good to look at for a boy with ASD tendencies but no behavioural issues. Perhaps it is a case of go with the lang unit and provide the visual timetables, etc, myself... Or maybe there are some great mainstream schools out there??? Don't want to put the area at this point.