ruthie

Thanks for all your replies so far i will go through the links. On the education front DS has had a statement for just over 12 months now and it is now overdue review which i suppose is quite a good thing as now that can be tweaked a little bit to account for his diagnosis. He currently attends a special school for children with ESBD,so i think he is in the right place for him at the moment, i do believe they have teachers that have undergone specialist training to help pupils with ASD. He has just started in year 6, so we do now have the decision to make as to whether to try and transfer him back into mainstream to continue his education next september, but his school he is at now has just been extended to be able to take them up to year 9, so he may well stay there for a little longer. I think for now we need to concentrate on making sure he is being educated in the right way to take into account of his diagnosis now. So i think it will take a few weeks for the final report and the diagnosis to get to the school and then i will go in and have a meeting with them to see where we go from here. Thanks again for all your help. Ruth x

Hi all. I am a total newbie to the world of ASD and really dont know much about it all. But now i'm here to find out all i need to know as my DS has just been diagnosed with HFA.

My DS who is 10 has just had the final dignosis as having HFA. So where do i go now? It's something i know nothing about, i have been given an information pack from Autism West Midlands. So i'm looking for lots of helpfull advice on some reading material for me and my partner on HFA, obviously nothing to in depth just something that is a starting point for us to begin to understand. Also what support is out there for us? It seems to be a bit of a minefield at the minute and i just don't really know where to start. Also one other question, is there any books out there for children, something i could maybe use to help me explain to DS about his diagnosis as yet he is totally unaware of why we have been going to appointments and what they were for. Should i be telling him now all about them and explaining to him why he is different, or should i just let him carry on the way he is ? I am one very confused mum right now.