Cubs/Autism ?

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Does anyone have experience of a child with autism being included in Beavers/Cubs ? Someone mentioned this to me but I am wondering how it really works - DS1 has only limited language and slowly increasing receptive understanding. (a) Would he get anything out of it ? and (b) What are attitudes likely to be once they see that he has language/learning difficulties as well as autism ?

Don't know how the double posting happened, I'm sure only clicked once !

Legally they have to include him, but as with all else in life, attitude and knowledge counts for a lot. I'd be wanting to know what they intended to offer him to make it fair for him and really enjoyable.
Mine didn't feel able to access that kind of group when younger and really struggled to understand and fit in with football and judo teams when he was smaller - so the way they handle how a child is fitted into the group and made to feel welcome is SO important. So is the basic safety e.g. lockable doors etc.
Not sure that's very helpful, but I really hope that you'd find a group that would welcome and love him for the person he is.

Depends on teh cubs group

Ours is very proactive, some of ds3's classmates from his SNU attend and whilst tehya re clear that they won't cope with Scouts in the same way theya re very accepting and dont care if you turn up maybe once a month or whatever.

They offered ds3 a palce too. We didn't take it but may well in a year. I would absolutely trust ehr with him, as I do ds2 (borderline edhd / dyspraxia)

otoh ds1's as behaviour is cuh that it nisn't even an option: they al vary so much

I dont have any experience of Cubs. But ds has tried other hobbies, without any success, he was just not interested.

He does however go to an arts and craft club, which has been successful. But art and making things is something he is very interested in anyway and they do the same thing every week, arts and craft, so he knows what to expect. He would not enjoy doing different things every week.

It took me months to settle him. 1st week we just stood outside, 2nd week we went in for 5 minutes etc, etc. He has been going for 6 months now and i can leave him for a whole hour!

Give it a try, you wont know what attitudes will be like. Whats the worse that could happen? (famous last words!)