Am I deludeding myself to think that DS might, possibly, find Y1 better than Reception?

[Borka]

DS has ASD and has really struggled with Reception. In the half of term before the Easter holidays his anxiety was so bad that he only managed one week of full attendance - the rest of the time he was only in for a few hours each week or doing mornings only. This term he's been in every day so far but has been a wreck at home.

His main difficulties are with sensory sensitivity & unstructured times, and he does seem to like the bits he sees as 'learning', so I'm hoping that next year will be easier for him. Plus his class teacher this year seems particularly duff.

But he's finding it so difficult that I'm torn between wanting to pull him out & home ed right now, and feeling that would be giving up too soon. Could next year be better for him, maybe?

My DS has also fallen apart in year three, fine in reception and yrs one and two where he had a wonderful TA. He is now refusing school, has a statement, but so far we are hitting a brick wall in trying to get a special school named on the statement

Your poor DS, I hope you get somewhere re. a special school. It's so frustrating how many things there are which can suddenly change & make the difference between it working & not working, like having the right TA.

Yes, it really is. She was just the class TA as well, as it was before he was statemented. She was just brilliant with him. It really is luck of the draw. Here's the irony, he did better with the right TA, than he is doing now with a statement and extra intervention.