home schooling child with asd

[kitakat]

My daughter is 14 and in yr 10 at school. For many months she has wanted to be home educated. She gets exclusions at school for silly reasons and her attendance for last term was not good about 70%. She finds school stressful and we feel the brunt of it at school. Since before Xmas she has been saying she will not be going back in the new year. Should I give home schooling a try when I will not be able to follow a school curriculum but would teach more life skills and how do I include socialising because at the moment school is the only interaction she has with her few friends.

Sorry forgot to say she has a diagnosis of Asperger's and ADHD although she is more withdrawn and lacking attention than hyperactive

Thanks for the messages and links have spoke to school today as she is still adamant that she does not want to return to school. Her social interaction outside school has completely stopped in the last 6 months not sure but wonder if she is completely trying to cut herself off from the outside world.
School is stressful for her and the work is getting more difficult now its GCSE,s she does have slow processing issues which seem to be making certain subjects harder for her.
part time does seem to be a good alternative if she can be persuaded as the stress would be reduced.
I didn't know about the online schools so I will check this out.

Poltergoose - no dd does not have statement school refused to even try on the grounds that she was not far enough behind on her schoolwork - despite the fact that her social and maturity levels were far behind those of a similar age and that she doesn't really have much idea of how to behave/respond in the outside world. School have not really met her needs for anything not academic just alienating her more for exclusions that have been a result of their bad management and not understanding her needs.

I'm still waiting since before Xmas for a meeting for them to help put strategies in place for when she is getting stressed so that they can cope and help dd without the need to ring me to fetch her home or excluding her.