chris54

Hi there. All you do is take your computer with you. If where your are moving in to have a wireless router, two options. first hard wire your computer into it. Probably no realy an option. Or buy a wireless adapter which plugs into your desktop and converts it to wireless. cost as little as £5. Then all you need is their router wireless network name and key, then off you go. If they haven't got Broadband, and your only staying short term, them its a pay as you go donegal thing. In most cases your email address has nothing to do with with Phone line, which router your using or anything. If you have to have a new email provider (new address,) it take all of 30 seconds to set one up. All you need to do is make sure you have all the email addresses that you want to keep written down somewhere so you don't lose them. The broadband provider would only insist on a new phone line if the existing one was not up to standard. The vast majority of them are good enough. When I moved where i am now despite the company I was with saying that I could take my broadband with my anywhere (At the same cost), turned out it was only to areas were broadband is unbundled, so change company. Phoned up and had broadband connected next day. I have moved from place to place in the UK a few times, all Iv ever done is find somewhere to live and move. Sort the rest out once I was there. If you realy want to move that's all you need, if you start worrying about things like "I wont be able to use my computer" you will never move. Of course you need to be certain in your mind what your moving for. Don't think that every thing is going to be rosy, its not

I remember the first school trip my son went on, He came home after 3 days in the same clothes he went in and I mean the same cloths, It seems no one told him to put on any others. Hi, I use to live in an area were a lot of foreign student stayed with host families. Yes they do it for the money paid but in general they do take an interest in the children.

I would agree with what Sally44 has stated. Any change in school wont happen overnight. As I understand it a child wont get into a special school without a statement of educational need. I cannot imagine a situation were a LA would send a child to a special school that did not need to be there. Just on cost grounds alone it would make no scenes. There are plenty of parent who would prefer their child to in in a special school and not mainstream. In our area the LA is reducing the number of special school places in favor of mainstream. They has even gone to the extent of blocking parent attempts to set up a Special Free School. ( The only type of Free School that need council approval to set up.) But that another story.

Just interested why mums and not parents. I'm a dad with a disabled wife and a son with autism, I do most of the caring and work full time. If you want to know about stress ask me.

Our council are in the proses of reorganising all SENs provision. One of the much quoted reasons is to reduce the amount that is spent on school transport. Basically it intended to decentralise as much as possible with most SENs children going to mainstream schools.

Only 2 weeks and we 're half way through year 7, things are still going OK. Son has been moved up from group 4 to group 2 in maths and science. They had somewhat underestimated his ability in Science. His target for the end of year 9 is (was) 4c His current level is 6c. That is very much his best subject, always reading his science books, At the moment I'm keeping up with him but don't think it will be to much longer before I'm struggling. One of the few times he sits still for more than 2 minutes is when there is a science programme on the telly. Then its maybe 10 minuets of stillness.

Hate to say this but if it is worms, the chances are all the family will have them by now. They always recommend you treat the whole family. This is from www.nhs.uk Threadworms often go unnoticed, but symptoms can include: intense itching around the anus, particularly at night when the female worms are laying eggs itching around the vagina disturbed sleep as a result of the itching, which can make you irritable

Going off the subject a little. So you go to university is to enable you to get a "better" job. Sounds a good idea. So 50% of the population go to university. That sound a good idea. But then where are all these "Better" jobs coming from. And who will be doing all the jobs that you don't need a university education to do.

I'v made a little progress on finding a carer. Been in contact with two possibles. Just sent off the grant application, it had to have a covering letter from someone to back it up. I asked the school SENCO who did a fantastic letter of support. I will be referring to the content of the SENCO's letter when filling in his DLA renewal. She's put everything in such a precise way. Much better than I can ever.

You imply that you don't have to pay for ISP to be on line. I know there are various packages and pay as you go, but one way or another your paying. By the way there is Nothing wrong with using a "Free" service. Just as I said there is nothing in life for free. How would the company that provides the service continue if it didn't have money coming in from somewhere to pay its bills. Most "free" things on the Internet come with a tirade of advertising for other products. I use free services, programs etc myself, I just ignore, delete, block or uninstall the bits I don't want. Other use these bits, which often cost them, so I get it for free but they pay. Back to the OP, sound to me like a bit of Windows is missing, have you tried there help line to see if they can help.

I don't realy feel able to comment about weather you have Aspergers or not, all sound a bit to close to home. In our house we spend our time talking about the universe and dinosaurs, and lots of other "Boring" subjects. And Iv never watched X factor at home (Its sometime on at work). What I would say is, are you happy with you life and where its going, in my opinion, much more important than having a label.

Our council have some money to give away. Problem is it has to be spent by the end of March. I am applying for some to pay for some respite care. Problem is I cant find anyone suitable to do the caring. I'm looking for someone who could take my boy, who is 11, for some days out, giving us all a break from each other. Any ideas where to look.

Nothing in life is free. Some one some where must be paying for these free services. Why?

I would confirm that education as such stops at the end of the academic year in which they are 18. That is unless going on to further education (Full Time Adult Education). This is a time of many changes as they cease to be children and are now considered an adult and "independent " of their parents.

Compared to my sons diet that sounds like a banquet. We have had problems with his eating from the day he was born, never realy got to the bottom of what was going on. He now eats so little you wonder how he keeps going. He's 11, underweight, full of energy and never ill. As far as we now know with him its a scenery thing, his visual surrounding will often stop him eating. At his new school he cant eat in the dinning room because of the pictures on the walls. We had all the advice about what to do and Non of it works for us, We all sit down at the table together and try to make our sons meal reflect what we have but don't give him what we know he wont eat. That just stops him eating the other things on his plate he would normally eat. And we don't make a big deal about it. Just to be contrary, when we go to my sisters, he will eat almost anything she put in front of him. Our son will eat a small amount of chicken, but tomatoes of any sort are most definitely off the menu, which rules our a lot of the things that kids are supposed to like, like pizza and baked beans.

The company I work for that has 5 residential homes, they have someone in the management team how sorts all these things out. Maybe its worth talking to the home to see what they say.

We had an interim review last week, (The just gone up to seconder school one) just us the SEN Manager and the Educational Psychologist. It was realy a case of running through all that the school have in place for our son. In his statement it says 10 hours of 1to1 support. As now he has gone up to secondary school this is funded out of delegated funding. The way they do it here. We have tried to get the hours increased in the past but with no success. To cut a long story short. The provision that the school have in place is based on his needs and not the hours in his statement, They, the school are going to attempt to get the statement completely rewritten, with the backing of the EP, to reflect more accurately the provision that is in place, it is felt by the EP that the school should be entitled to more funding as they are doing more than is in his statement as it stands. I cant say that I have any complaints about the school and what they are doing, lets hope it stays that way.

Thank for reply. The secondary school are overall providing more support under delegated funding than my son had at primary with individual funding. Like was said I don't want to say everything is to rosy, That there is more that could be done.

It is not at all unusual for a school to employ a new member of staff when a new child with SENs starts. When my own son was at primary school they employed a TA for 10 hours a week to work with him. When he moved up to secondary school her job was gone. (They did reemploy her for a new child starting.) If we look at cost in isolation. It is quite possible for the cost of transporting a child to a special school to work out more than the cost of employing a full time TA at their local mainstream school. I our ares they, the council are moving away from centralised SEN provision to local, (SEN provision in mainstream schools) in a large part to save on the cost of school transport.

Up date. First term over and I have no real complaints about the school. Son seem happier than when at primary, he seems to get adequate support in lessons. They are continuing to address his poor hand writing (and seem to be getting somewhere). He even gets house point in PE which is his least favorite subject. There is a lunch time social group that he goes to. And he has started doing circle time. Bit of a moan about homework and lack (sometimes) of clarity but that's about it. Got his first term report and seems to be at about the right level and Apparently is working hard. I still have to walk with him right up to the school in the mornings but I now meet him at the end of school road in the evening. Got his annual review in 2 weeks time and am thinking hard about what I should say.

Been thinking about this one. In general terms, a child does not necessarily have to be taught separately to be taught differentiated. I would have thought that in a subject like PE there is a lot of differentiated teaching going on all the time. A good PE teacher will do this as second nature, not even thinking of it as such. Now if the issue is that it says in the statement that a child should have a particular type of PE lesson then that would be a different thing. As far as funding is concerned. Depends on how the statement is funded and how it is worded. Does it set an amount of time for 1-2-1 PE lessons? If it is funded out of delegated funding then it is realy up to the school how they use their funding, as long as the terms of the statement are met. If it has funding attached then it should be clear were that funding is being used. Remember that even with attached funding there is also scope for the school to provide more support out of their delegated funding. Going off track a little. There will be cases where it make good use of funding to support a child in the class who does not have a statement or where it is not stated in the statement that they require 1-2-1 support, if by providing that support the class teacher is able to spent less time away from whole class teaching and therefor benefiting the whole class.

Ray

YES it should read "more than 15 hours" and not "20 hours or more" as I stated in my last post. As I said right at the start, my son has a statment for 10 hours 1-2-1 support. It is likely that now he would not get a statement, or if he did it would not state hours only what his support needs are.

Delegated funding means that a school gets a pot of money that they have to fund all SEN out of. In our area only children with a statement of 20 hours or more attract additional funding. A problem we had in primary was that he had 1-2-1 for two hours each morning, a lot of the rest of the day he struggled. The arrangement in secondary is that there is a higher adult child ratio in the classroom (and elsewhere)and help will be given to each child as they need it throughout the school day. His problem in the class room are keeping focus on the set task, understanding (Strings of)instructions, and his hand writing, which is slow and almost unreadable. His handwriting problems are being addressed, not that I hold a lot of hope of substantial improvement, despite all that's go before, its has only gone from being totally unreadable to almost unreadable. So the help he needs is:- to be organized, reminder of what he is supposed to be doing, help with note taking and for someone to lookout that he actually understands what it is he is doing as he will not ask for help. Out of the class room he has all the usual problems with social interaction, and needs staff to be aware of this and intervene when needed. And help with any change in routine. The senco seems to be on the ball to a large extent and has only needed a little bit of nudging here and there in the right direction. As far as going from class to class during the day, I think, despite my misgivings, he enjoys navigating his way round the building. Only thing he doesn't like is the crowding on the landing, which are fairly small. Their moving into a new school building at in the spring so that will not be a problem for long. A problem me have at the moment it reminding the staff that he will not remember or will fail to communicate to us what he has been told in school. The EPs are very active in the schools here, as are autism outreach. Our biggest problem is Home Work.

As far as I am aware disabled bus passes now used are national (England). Its the same concession that OAPs get.