Getting a jumper off your child on a hot day...

[MedusaIsHavingaBadHairday]

DS2 (ASD and learning difficulties) doesn't register being too hot (or cold) and will wear the same number of layers regardless. He is sometimes prised out of his jumper and/or coat at school by his TA (tricky as he is 6 feet tall!!)

I have never managed to find a way to teach him how to judge what to wear. he is resistant to change but not agressive about it..he just simply doesn't process if you suggest something different!

As he gets older, the scary adult future is fast approaching and I worry about how he will be when I'm not there, or his TA to ensure he is suitably dressed.

How do you teach someone to recognise if they are hot or cold?

I sympathise - I've given up on getting DS out of his coat on hot days, and he's only 4!

I do remember a suggestion somewhere of using an indoor-outdoor thermometer and then making some sort of chart showing the appropriate clothing for various temperatures, but obviously that would only work at home, your DS couldn't carry it around with him.

I'm not sure medusa. I still have to tell DS to take layers off/put coats on etc and he is 16. He came home from school today with his school hoody on over his polo shirt when everyone else was just wearing t-shirts. He fainted at school whilst sitting in a hot demountable classroom a few weeks ago. It was hot because the sun was on the windows, but they had to shut the windows as they were watching a tv program and had the blinds shut which were flapping in the breeze. It didn't seem to occur to him to take his sweatshirt off.

He has just sat 11 GCSE's but has zero common sense when it comes to knowing what to wear for the temperature.

School has asked us not to send ds in wearing his sweatshirt because they can't get it off him if it turns hot. He's the same with coats, bodywarmers, hats etc, if I think he's going to be hot I can't put them on him in the first place because they won't come off again even if he is red in the face and his hair all stuck down.

Tonight I took DS to karate. The room we use was BOILING. All the other kids (bar the other 2 aspies) were wearing white T shirts instead of their Gi tops. DS refused to remove his.

I never send him in a jumper as he will never take it off no matter how hot it gets!