I am so confused with what I could and should do next. DC is 11, diagnosed autistic, awaiting ADHD assessment. Hit a realls school crisis last Nivember, but has always hated school. Pro-masker level, so I've always been told she's 'fine' in school.
Attendance has fallen sharply since last November currently not going in at all. School say even if in, she's spending time in the 'calm corner' and doing very, very little. She is academically very able. They have written that as the year has progressed her inability to cope has become very evident. We were spending a lot of time coaxing and cajoling her into school- up to an hour on some days. Always late. She never wants to go back.
Just have a draft EHCP which isn't enough to help. No specialist schools near us for those academically able (she was working at an 'exceeding expectations' level for reading/writing and age expected for everything else). No CAMHS- 2 referrals rejected as not bad enough.
Is home ed going to have to be the next step? I don't see how I'll get her to engage with anything... but I don't even know what to fight for at this stage. And 2 months out of school and she is so much calmer, happier and more like herself. We're not battling her every day. She's not hitting her head and having huge and prolonged meltdowns. I don't want to go back to that. I don't want to home educate. I don't think she'll cope at secondary school...
Any advice?
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ADarknessOfDragons · 20/05/2022 17:27
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