DD is in mainstream school year 10 , and i’m concerned that in just over a year she will leaving school .... She cannot stay on at her current schools sixth form as she would not attain the necessary grades and just i don’t know what the best option is for her post 16 ...?
At her current school she has access to a TA who she works very well with in her lessons . This TA is mainly off the back of a boy in DD’s classes who has an EHCP and TA provision , although as Dd has a diagnosis she gets some help
Dd usually goes to LSC at breaks and lunchtimes, where she feels comfortable. But this has been harder during covid as she has often been in a room on her own as year groups have had to be split up
When she returned to school in September she struggled to settle back into school and we had a period of school refusal , but school and her TA worked very hard to get her back in to school and DD did settle in to school again
Since being at home, school have said that the communication and interaction team will be coming when schools return, to help with DD transition back to being at school again
I suppose that i would really like DD to repeat year 10 , as she has missed so much and she is young in the year / an August Birthday, but i know that Dd does not want to do this , or if it is even an option ,,?!
Another thing i have thought about is for her to move to a school that she can study at until she is 18 , but I looked in to this last year and there are very few schools in our area with spaces - the only school with space is not really suitable for DD .
DD has a diagnosis of ASD but does not have an EHCP , as I’ve been told she wouldn’t qualify and they are not often given in our area ,,,
Any advice appreciated!