How would you approach this?

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Dd has a diagnosis of ASD. She functions well at school and is not statemented and has no extra support. WE tend to get the fall out at home. She has a school trip coming up. I have always gone with the class during reception and Year 1 but she is now in Year 2 with seemingly a less sympathetic teacher. The school trip letter says that not all parents will get to go but we can volunteer if we want to. Would you volunteer and hope to get a place or say up front that dd will be very upset if other parents go and I do not?

Thing is she won't show it at school, she never does, it will all be saved for home .

I kind of get the impression that they haven't got a lot of time for dd's diagnosis because she's doing so well at school.

Would you insist "nicely" on going? Thanks for any thoughts.

My ds has just started school so I dont have any experience of school trips yet. But I think if you feel strongly that your dd needs you there you should definitely discuss it with the school. I have had a situation recently where I have insisted nicely that I should be with ds and even though the school probably dont agree with me they have agreed and are being supportive.

Hi, I would talk to her teacher and say that you feel you need to go as eg she may get very anxious in unfamiliar surroundings. Hopefully you will be given priority amongst the parent volunteers. I would have thought school would be happy/relieved to have you there, if there is a risk she may get very distressed/try to bolt etc (although appreciate that if they havn't seen that behaviour in school they may not really appreciate the risk).