Im worried about my ds4 starting school in sept, also scared about how he wil cope.

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My DS4 Jono, is starting reception in september, he goes to panel this month for his statementing, and i guess the provision for school too. There are'nt any SLU/MLD schools near me, so he will have to travel. Im saddened cos i took my older 4 children to school and collected them every day, and will still have an 8yr old to take to school.I can't be in 2 places at the same time, so wont be able to do this with jono,i do feel ive been cheated a bit, but i know it's best he goes to a place where he will be happy. I worry cos he is such a dear little soul, and he does not like change at all, so i scared for him too. He has GDD so can't express thru speech, his worries, or if hes scared, and he is epileptic too, so would they know what to do if he fits.? I know it will effect me more than him, but i cant help feeling like this cos he is my baby, and i just want to wrap him up in cotton wool and protect him from the world.

id just like to share the fear for sept my ds ASD starts school just had ed psych out today etc statement going through im petrified for him

so big hugs to you as i know how you are feeling we can only hope the schools and the 1-1 will be supportive enough to except the change and settle in

Thing is realistically i know i have to let him do this, as its going to be part of his world, so to speak, and i cant really wrap him up forever, even though i'd love to, lol, i just want to protect him, im just wondering if they would let me go with him on the bus/taxi for the first couple of days, or would that make it worse for him do you think.? The ed psych, bless her, i think was trying to tell me in her own way, with out making the decision for me,that he must go to a special school, im just going to miss having that going to school time with him. He has the 1 2 1 now at nursery and yes it will continue, but i think we all feel that no one can look after or understand our babies as we do, lol.

oh i do understand but i think also i would let him go on his own on the bus so he doesn't think its routine that you always go on the bus he will learn that you will be waiting at other side on way home

my special needs teacher is going to make a book of the new school so i can prepare bubbla boy before hand with pictures could you do this so have a bus etc see if you can get some pictures of the school and just start explaining that he will go on bus etc and then to the new school

i think you'll find it harder than him to be honest as they do tend to adapt to there new routines but we dont lol

i had the longest discussion yesterday trying to get the ed psych to write everything about bubbla boy down the best way to handle information overload placement in the classroom why he does things what he might be doing lol as im scared someone wont understand him and it'll make him more frustrated

but im sure the schools know exactly what there doing lol and i think the main thing is good communication with the teacher and the 1-1 to make sure personal need are met

ive also done a personal passport so it has everything from his view that will go into the school for anyone to read i just need to update it with his sensory issues that have arisen