enrico

Hi there, this is aimed at one of the Moderators of this forum. The community here is excellent and very helpful, so thank you for your hard work in supporting the forum. I noticed today that a few of the links in the pinned topics under "Education" are broken. The NAS ones below return a '404 - Not found' error. The teachernet links all point to a message that tells me teachernet is no longer in existence, please see the Dept for Education website... but that takes me back to the very sketchy info. on the govt. website about the National Curriculum etc. I thought you (and anyone else trying the links) should know. Best wishes, enrico Broken NAS links: ================== National Autistic Society (NAS) NAS Education information pages http://www.nas.org.uk/nas/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1066 Broken Teachernet links: ========================== Special Educational Needs Code of Practice - a guide for schools and LEAs about the help they give to children with special educational needs. Obtained free - 0845 60 222 60. http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id=3724 SEN Toolkit Obtained free - 0845 60 222 60. http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/s...istant/toolkit/ Special Educational Needs: A guide for Parents and Carers. Obtained free - 0845 60 222 60. http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id=3755 NAS Education advocacy tips for parents

Hi, our DD (age 6, classic Kanner's autism) does this, have mentioned it to the paed by email, but not due to see him for a while. We think it's partly sensory and possibly related to an external stress that DD can't describe... e.g. at the moment she's still settling into Year 2 with a new teacher who hasn't had an ASD child in the class before. We noticed the hair-eating thing too... definitely yeuch!... but I said to her very solemnly that "the hair would stay in her tummy forever", not like the cat (who brings up hairballs that she's seen) and that seemed to get the point across! Interestingly, it's started at the same time as a whole load of other stuff: sleeping 'pattern' much, much worse than usual, upset tum when she goes to the loo, all of which make me think it's some external change triggered all the behaviours. Sorry I haven't got any wonder cure, but we seem to have something that's fairly common. Enrico