Schools high functioning autism

[SmithG75]

Hi, My son is now a school refuser. He is in year 7. he is quite bright so our local SN school have said they would not take him as they could not meet his academic needs.

IF I asked this community where is the best school in the UK for high functioning/aspergers kids who are academic, what would you say?

We can move anywhere so are trying to treat this as a chance for a fresh exciting new start..... better than the awful day to day life we are all living at the moment

I can’t help but am in a similar position with a much younger child (Y2) and so interested in any responses you get.

Egerton Rothesay eger-roth.co.uk
More House www.morehouseschool.co.uk primarily a dyslexia school but with quite a few on the spectrum
Priory schools very pricey
Sos sen may be a good place to advise
No personal experience of the above schools but maybe a starting point

Try the Priory Group

Our son is in one of their FE colleges (16-25) which is excellent.

www.priorychildrensservices.co.uk/schools-and-colleges/

Hi, We hope to go and see the Priory school in Roehampton but need LA support for the fees. We would have to move to be near the school so a bit upheaval as our son loves his home and hometown. May I ask which FE college he is at? Good to look at the next stage? Do you know anything about the thickness of getting funding for the priory schools?

Farleigh FE College, Frome, Somerset.

We had to appeal to the SEND Tribunal for the placement. The LA backed down before it went to the hearing. We had a lot of evidence to show our son needed autism specific specialist provision.

may I ask what kind of evidence you put together?

Our experience is that specialist schools cope with mid-range academic ability but find it difficult to cater for the higher achievers through a combination of lots of lesson disruption and fewer subject options (compared to mainstream). It has been a constant battle to get ds1's academic needs met. I suppose we should be grateful he is on target to get a few GCSE's (well I hope so) but less than we would have hoped for (or promised) when he got a place at the school placement. I would like to say we have been unlucky with the school but we had even greater problems in this area at another specialist school for ds2. The frustrating thing for us is that one of the things that reduces my ds's anxiety is being given challenging work to do which you would have thought would have been a win win situation for the schools.

HI, this is what we are finding. We have enrolled our son on inter high.com until we sort out what to do but that involves us being at home with him which means I have to reduce my work hours. Also, to be honest, being at home with him 24/7 is a nightmare as he is having some really awful anger moments. I am hoping this is because he has just turned his world upside down by leaving his mainstream school so is in turmoil. This is why my thread was focused on high academic autistic kids as we find the same things - mixed ability in the class will be a waste of time for him