I dont want to join this club

[ipodtherforipoor]

but I think I am...

DS4 been at school 4 weeks has just been excluded for the rest of the day.

I think its time I faced up to the fact that as bright and funny and clever he is, he is also probably ASD.

God I feel crap - I cant stop crying, heaving, and wondering where this is all going, I just want to run away

• with DS actually!

I dont know what to do - do I send him to his room for the rest of the day, let him watch tv, play, read - it all seems like a reward for being sent home

arghhhh I want this to stop before it begins

Hi ipod
Nothing to add... but wanted to welcome you to the board
i remember that raw wounded feeling very well
It will get easier

How are you feeling now ipod?

You'll find lots of help and support from this board, welcome

good luck with the team meeting tomorrow, ipod.

at magso: ds picked the flowers from the nursery garden today, but luckily the staff saw the funny side as he was trying to give them to one of the girls from his class. let's hope it doesn't become a habit!

bit of school refusing going on here this morning - some of it him, but i want to too!
I'm all fired up to get this sorted.

Does anyone knw - if he ISN'T diagnosed with ASD, but still cant function is he still eligible for support to access the school and the curiculum?

You don't need a medical diagnosis to get a statement of needs stating what support he needs in class.

I had to 'teach' ds to enjoy messy play too he also now can just about bear hand driers if he is in the right frame of mind. He too will not eat hot food (or hot, wet food) which is very limiting.

Good luck in your meeting Ipod.

Yes..you can still get help. Ds got funding for 15 hours a week before he had a dx
i reckon it's more straightforward with dx though

interesting day,

DS is only to go to school till just before lunchtime- quite how this works with a fulltime working mum I dont know but i guess i'm about to find out!

I'm a bit confused about what to do now though - surely if i pick him up from school and take him to nursery then go to work by the time I've done my hours its nearly five - and he's done a longre day in a very stimulating environment than if he had just stayed in school!

The idea is that by doung shorter periods in school G will have a positive experience of school rather than constantly getting in trouble.

hmmmm,

day then get better as we went out for our special tea out night, and instead of filling a glass at nandos with lemonade he got a half pint full of frozen whipy yoghurt! -

i then got home to find my grandad holding up the china cabinet with one hand while trying to empty it as it had fallen off the wall,

and then, I found out my nana is being admitted too hospital tomorrow following a routine oncology appointment!

argghhhh!!!!

you couldn't make it up could you!

iPod, J wasn't dx'd till he'd been in school a year (with ADHD) and then the autism was dx'd after 2.5 years at school...he still had a Statement from when he started school, even without dx, because it was the needs that warranted the Statement, if that makes sense.

Having said that, the initial statement was a bit crap and was only a 60% 1:1 allocation; the autism dx did force the LEA to up that to 100% even though they'd refused before that, so a dx helps (but shouldn't) although needs are the key.