**AUTISM / ASPERGERS SUPPORT GROUP**

[doll*obsession]

A safe place for all members with friends or family with ASD

Come and have a cuppa, share your joys, and vent your problems with other people who understand.

[bella_again]

See changed it for you - bit of a mouthful thou:^O

[krazy.kiwi]

C's hayfever is still bad. He went to school for half a day yesterday. Purely & utterly so he could go on an excursion with the grade 5s to the local high school.


I have always said my kids would be home schooled before they went there, but now I am contemplating going for a look & a chat with the staff. :O:O


They are building a new one which would be better for him, but it's not yet established and there are too many unknowns. There are 400+ kids this year and next year there will be 800+ kids at the new school. They don't have the room or facilities for them yet. By the time it is fully operational to year 12 there will be up to 2,500 kids there. (It's a P-12 with a specialist school built in.) Add to that the fact that it would be a 20 minute + drive to & from school everyday, meaning little brother, A, would have to get himself to & from school for the forseeable future because the public transport to the new school is shocking.

Whereas the high school down the road is less than 20 minutes WALK away, it is well established and has a music program (he really, really wants guitar lessons) However it also has/had a bit of a bad reputation. the local darlings show no respect to anyone (including themselves) when walking past my house and I am very nervous about the whole thing.

He already gets bullied at recess and is protected at lunch by going in to the library almost every day with a few other kids that need to be segregated form the rest for their own protection IYKWIM. How will he cope at high school - it's where most of the kids who bully him will be going.


(sorry for the scroller :))

[bella_again]

Hey Kiwi:-x

Its a tough one isn't it? I don't see any harm in chatting with the staff and touring the local school. Chat to as many parents as you can as well.

It's so hard on one hand, you don't want to put your son in an environment where he will be bullied constantly, but the other school sounds very impractical with the transport issue.

Why does he have to go to the library? Can't the current school manage the bully's?

That sux poor kid:-(

Its not an easy decision thats for sure, even with my girls at the end of every year I reassess the situation and often look at the local schools - just to make sure I've made the right decision, or to see if there is anything that can be beneficial to them.

Have you looked into community courses, sometimes they offer guitar. If you were closer my OH would help him, he plays acoustic Guitar.

Anyway better get going, have a lot on today.

[krazy.kiwi]

They have a small social group in the library for those who don't cope with people on a large scale.

He would be OK in the playground with the other kids if this years teacher didn't stress him out so much. 😞

He has ended up in too much rouble this year to be left alone in the yard. There are a couple of days when the librarian (she runs the group and is his integration aide) takes him out and spends the whole of lunch with him.

Another teacher runs a "homework" club that she gets him to go to help her. She does this to provide a safe environment for him and a few other kids. She is actually running a social skills group based on curriculum from the Western Autistic school. (She gets C completely as he is just like her son. :-x)

[mapalarkin]

Evening All

Seems like its been ages since Ive seen so much chatter in here.Im gald to see all are well and coping the best we all can.
I was without internet for 2 days thanks to little master Nicholas.He has turned into a computer nut.Likes to surf you tube looking for the wiggles and alphabet songs.His speech is coming along good.He can say his own name now and he suddenly started to use the toilet.After months of trying he just did it.Ive enrolled him into pre-school next yr for 2 days a week and he will have an aide with him that will help him with interacting with other kids(hates socialising) as well as speech therapy.
Darcy is doing great.walking home from school everyday and 2 days this past week he walked to school with boy up road.Like your boy Kiwi Darcy spends his lunch and recess with a small group of boys all with their own special needs in a rainforest at school.Its good to see him happy in there.
I almost lost it last week shopping after a man told Nicholas to shut up while in Big-W.After the shock wore off I said something to my mum about it and a biker heard me and was ready to go after the man and rip his head off but i just embarresed him when he walk past again and let the other shoppers know what he said in a very very loud voice.He left in a hurry then.People should stop and think that maybe the child that is making the noises isnt upset because they didnt get a toy but may have problems.Anyway i didnt go off and get myself arrested lol but I did stand up for my boy.
Bed time for me.have a great day tomorrow everyone and in the words of Forrest Gump "Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you will get"

[azureline**]

bumping for Ashjoma

[bella_again]

*waves hello* to everyone, hope you've all had a terrific week.

[islandretro]

Great week here - I now no longer have a school kid in the house. If I never have to iron another school uniform I will be a happy woman!

I must say he has been making up for lost time and has been playing xbox360 games non stop since the last exam except for Fiday when they had to go to school for their graduation ceremony, which was awesome - almost the entire staff up on stage in costume doing the Time Warp rewritten to be "lets do the IB again..." I was hoping it would be put on You Tube by some enterprising student but so far can't find it. It brought the auditorium down - none of the kids knew it was coming and the head of English Dept creeping along the rows of Yr12's like a zombie singing the role of the narrator AND Dr Frankenfurter had them rolling in the aisles :^O

It was great to see how well this school has suited him - he came home with heaps of messages written all over his shirt. although the last day of school is a pretty emotional time for all of them. Thank goodness he is not only too young but also totally lacking in interest in going to schoolies down the coast.
cheers
Rae

[bella_again]

Hi Rae
Hope DS has fun winding down and relaxing for a bit. You have done an incredible job helping him to get to this point so successfully.

I'm outta here for a few days to take DD to the specialist and catch up with friends. Just in the nick of time too OH is busy ripping walls out of the bathroom. All kinds of critters in there, ewwww lol

Anyway have a great week!

[bella_again]

Hellooooooooo 🙂
Anyone out there?

Just a question, does any one know about something called Edu space?

If so is there a website???