Access to pre/after school clubs and out-of-term holiday camps

[Simcha]

Hi

My son has high-functioning autism and an ECHP, starting reception in September.

I would welcome advice/other people's experiences, please, on what adjustments I can reasonably in practice anticipate the school making for my son to enable him to access pre/after school clubs and out-of-term holiday camps given his needs? And how should one go about discussing this with the school?

Many thanks

I wouldn’t hold out much hope. I don’t want to be negative, but realistically these clubs are hugely stressful for ASD children as the can be noisy and unstructured. This won’t apply too all children, but many find getting through the day at school is extremely hard to manage, and need to come home or to another low-key environment ASAP.

Hopefully someone with better news will be along, and I can tag on to the advice. So far my DS with ASD has only used the after-school club in emergencies.

He has managed activity clubs after school like coding, athletics and chess club for an hour.

If it's not in school hours then I'm pretty sure they don't have to make adjustments. Depending on who'd running the activities. ECHP usually don't fund 1:1 etc out of school hours

My 10 year old struggles with anything like that. He went to a playscheme 2 years ago with me as his carer but he still struggled and so did I tbh, I was exhausted by the end of it.