Thank you for your reply - I too am worrying that he may not cope with mainstream school - I was hoping that as his older sister is already there this might make him feel more comfortable - but I dont think its helping - also my 13 year old daughter is on their gifted and talented register and in the top 2% in the UK for maths and english - all the tutors at her school have said when they found out her brother was coming up, is, is he anything like Bryony? to which I always reply that Max has special educational needs and every child is an individual so theres no reason he should be like her anyway. I get most annoyed when they say that. We have actually got a specialist school for AS and autism only about 6 miles away from us, so this maybe an option going forward.