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ilikemysleep · 17/09/2013 21:03

DS1 (aspie, selectively mute) started secondary 10 days ago. The school seemed to be helpful - put him with best match form tutor, with friends from primary, staff briefed, extra transition day etc...but you never know if its all mouth and no trousers.

I know it's early days but aside from some issues in one subject who are doing a heavily philosophical / inferential piece of work that he finds exceptionally hard, he's doing well. The SENCO rang to say he'd struggled to go into one lesson and was he okay, then the head of year 7 rang to say they've noticed some behaviours at break and lunch and weren't sure if he was unhappy - wandering around alone, lying on a bench - but DS does tend to zone out of social contact and he seems perfectly happy there, which I said, and she said 'My instinct was that he was not distressed and that it was just him, everyone wants him to be happy, would it help if I wrote him a series of cards of things he can do at lunch if he has nothing to do?' - she also took him to the lunch club so he could see where it is. I am so delighted that they seem to actually care and be proactive...very different from his primary who only ever did what I demanded and never offered anything!

Funny add-on, I talked to him about this lunchtimes thing and he said 'I like to stand and spin', I said 'Don't do that for too long or people will think you're peculiar' and he said 'I don't do it for too long, I do it for just the right amount of time' Grin

How is everyone's new school year going?

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ilikemysleep · 17/09/2013 21:37

Polter - we chose the smallest, least prestigious grammar, not too high pressured and had a bad ofsted a few years ago (good one since, and change of head) so working hard to attract parents. We really liked the comp too but it was just too big for DS, for whom the crucial thing is that people know who he is. I think with it being a grammar they aren't overwhelmed with SEN children of higher priority which was the case at the primary. If he hadn't got through the 11+ we'd have had to make it work at the comp - key thing was having DS write his own 'if I could talk to you this is what I would tell you about how to teach me best' thing, 1 side A4 with picture, distributed at first transition meeting so SENCO could share before transition visits. Everyone seems to know DS, even the receptionist and the HT greeted him by name when he arrived for his special transition visit (of course, DS ignored..!)

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