Bryce when you say your ds has a very unusual brain, to us, yes. But actually that’s really typical of autism. My ds (9yr old) can do things that I (34 yr old!) would struggle with.
But at the opposite end of the scale, still talking about the same 9yr old child, he can’t do things a 2 year old can do with ease. He has such deficits with things, years ahead with some bits, years behind with other bits.
Its called an uneven profile of learning (or spikey profile) and its really common.
My 2 yr old nephew is autistic, he can’t ask for things, doesn’t understand communication at all, but he has an iPad he can navigate exceptionally well. Ds was like that at 2 also.
carrie I get emails like that every year. I never respond. Pointless. they don’t even spell ds name right on his ehcp, they call him something that sounds like his name but a letter different. It’s literally not worth the paper it’s written on. I correct them every year on the mistakes from the previous year, they edit it at his annual review then the amended plan says the same mistakes. Parts of his ehcp talks about things from nursery age, I’ve told them every year for at least 4 years to take it out, every year it’s still in there. 😡
It’s the woman at ds school who does the annual reviews and she’s as thick as shit. Then again his old school were the same as some of the mistakes are from when they did it and he hasn’t attended there for over 2 years now.
I just think whatever, his targets are shite too, every year, just really basic. An ehcp is just an expensive passport to a special school in my opinion. I don’t care if people don’t agree. That’s my experience of it all.
Hope everyone is well. 5 days left until ds returns to school.
I’m bankrupt. 99% of the way there to being classified as clinically insane, I’ve put half a stone on, and I look like what I expect it looks like when you dig a dead body up from the Cemetery 🤣
I’m completely done in and patiently awaiting a bit of respite next week.