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BellzMum
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Hi everyone ~ I haven't been in here for a long time, and can't even remember what my user name was back then!
My daughter is 7 and has Aspergers. Academically all is fine [despite her lack of interest in homework hehe] but socially she really suffers. She overreacts to other kids and gets quite mean very quickly with them. Consequently they don't like her much ~ or one day they love her and the next they don't. She has also become a target [her teacher's words] because she gives such fantastic reactions. I know this is all to be expected, but wasn't expecting so much resistance from the school when I have tried to address it.
My daughter has a teachers aide, and her funding only allows 25 mins a day with the aide. They're linked her with another boy who needs the aide full-time, but it means my daughter has to be inside with him every lunch time. Before this she was out in the playground on her own and most days she was very distraught about things happening in the playground. I requested she get help in the playground, as did her psychologist. Their answer was to keep her in at lunchtime.
She has always been hard to get to school, but lately even harder. She's miserable. She says she's being bullied. The VP outright said that was not true and that the aide had told her that my daughter can be "nasty". They seem to be concentrating on that rather than the fact that my daughter needs help socialising. And her teacher told me she was being bullied.
I feel as if I am banging my head against a wall when I talk to the school. They are condescending and dismissive. Has anyone else had difficulties with schools??
Thanks
My daughter is 7 and has Aspergers. Academically all is fine [despite her lack of interest in homework hehe] but socially she really suffers. She overreacts to other kids and gets quite mean very quickly with them. Consequently they don't like her much ~ or one day they love her and the next they don't. She has also become a target [her teacher's words] because she gives such fantastic reactions. I know this is all to be expected, but wasn't expecting so much resistance from the school when I have tried to address it.
My daughter has a teachers aide, and her funding only allows 25 mins a day with the aide. They're linked her with another boy who needs the aide full-time, but it means my daughter has to be inside with him every lunch time. Before this she was out in the playground on her own and most days she was very distraught about things happening in the playground. I requested she get help in the playground, as did her psychologist. Their answer was to keep her in at lunchtime.
She has always been hard to get to school, but lately even harder. She's miserable. She says she's being bullied. The VP outright said that was not true and that the aide had told her that my daughter can be "nasty". They seem to be concentrating on that rather than the fact that my daughter needs help socialising. And her teacher told me she was being bullied.
I feel as if I am banging my head against a wall when I talk to the school. They are condescending and dismissive. Has anyone else had difficulties with schools??
Thanks