question....

[emmalou78]

Curiousness calling...

Take a barely verbal Autistic child with a short fuse and a negative and violent behaviours repetoire alter 1 aspect of his ordinairy routine and kaboom he's suddenly using signs and mouthing words [we're having a mute phase - will not raise his voice above a low whisper at the moment] and hasn't bittn, pinched or had a screaching hissy fit at anyone in days..

Can we safely conclude that its the one thing he was doing before causing the frustration and stupendously difficultto manage behaviour?

try not to count your chickens just yet but yeap...sounds promising.

what was it you changed?

Sounds good. What was it that changed?

I never count chickens..

And we had no choice but to make the change, it was the end of term! amazing the difference not having to spend 2.5 hours in a hot, crowded noisy room with adults who don't notice his attempts to communicate has made...

My son Henry has aspergers, and is like a new child since I took him out of school in February.

Ah, yes.

DS1 changed dramatically when moving from mainstream to special school, and going from an envionment where no-one uderstood him at all to an environment where they did.

Going to try and get in touch with the psych see if she can help come up with a strategy to avoid his behaviour nosediving in september when term starts again, other then pulling him from the setting.

If a child has communication "issues" (shall we say!) then it is very important that someone is observant enough to pick up on their attempts to communicate. If no-one is doing that then he will get frustrated. Mind you, DS's school has taught him to "tap for attention" and it is very annoying! As he is in a special school he gets this level of observation and interaction but in an m/s school it will be very hard unless he has someone with him or at least paying him extra attention, even from afar.

And that davros, is why I've posted my objection, reiterating why he requires at least 26 hours support if he's placed in mainstream

Ah, I see! I don't know where I read the 26 hours but if its support during school time then I really hope you get it. It makes perfect sense to everyone else, why not them? That is the big question, ho hum!

It is school time yes, we're hopeful to get him 26 hours allocated on his statement for when he starts primary ed in january...

perhaps if I mentione dthe proposed statement in the last message it would have made more sense its the heat, its getting to me, big time.