teacher seems to be isolating ds

[twinkletoedelephant]

Been in to help at school and noticed some new changes to ds day to day school life.

Teacher believes D's to have some form of ASD ( its possible there is ASD in the family and he has some traits)
He is due to he assessed at school in a couple of months.
Teacher has introduced noise eliminating headphones for D's to wear ?? (We were not aware he had noise issues although his DT who has ADHD and his teacher has recommended them as hr hates loud noises . It seems she has seen what her colleague has done and copied.

She has also changed the seating so he is on his own on a table facing the big whiteboard. All the rest of the children are in sets of 6 on tables apart from ds.

She is a new teacher. I am not sure she knows what to do ... Playground gossip suggests she is struggerling a few parents have complained and her class seems to be slipping behind the others in the year.

The children in the class see xx being treated differently by the teacher and seem to be treating xx different he no longer talks about his friends and says he is by himself a lot a playtime.

There is only 3 months left at school and I know he will get a different teacher then.

Should I push for more inclusion?? After all it may be the assessors find no sn with ds?

If dc is unhappy then I would push for change. I suspect confidence in the class and with friends is more important for dc with a change of school coming up. OK, so he may not be in quite such a perfectly tailored environment for his learning for the last 3 weeks of school, but will he learn well if he is unhappy anxious or upset?

You know best

What was in place with the last teacher and was it working?
I would ask her why she has introduced these things and find out her rationale behind it. Things should be put in place to make DS's life easier and not hers.
I wouldn't be happy about him being given ear defenders without even asking you first!
If he was managing fine without all this then ask for it to be changed.

Sounds to me as though teacher has identified problems with your son's concentration. The ear defenders will be to limit distracting noise so he can focus and the single seat in front of the board has been done for the same reason, he now has an uninterrupted view and no kids nearby to distract him.

Whatever your feelings are about this, do get the teacher to put in writing what she has done and why, because it will give you a really good piece of evidence for the future if you need it to help to access more help for him.

Send her a nice email, dear teacher, ds has said you have moved him in class and now he has to wear (use his terminology for the ear defenders) and I was just wondering if you could let me know why you have made these changes because he is a bit bemused.