OzKazz

Are you able to advise the names of the schools you have found beneficial? We're about to start the tribunal process and with a cost of 50,000+ pounds this is not a process we can afford to get wrong.

Does removing 'high functioning and Aspergers' from the assessment criteria mean that these diagnoses would be lumped under 'Autism' or 'ASD'? To do so would be majorly detrimental. This is the case is Aus - though Aspergers is a seperate diagnosis. The support here is focused on Autism and if you have an ASD you get lumped into the autistic bucket. I appreciate that the areas of impairment in HFA and ASP are the same however how the impairments present themsleves are very, very different. We put our son in a school which whilst primarily for autsism also claimed to be able to effecfively support ASP. Suffice to say they couldn't and didn't. They focused on teaching all the children as though they were autistic. In summation, our son developed a stress related psychosis directly related to his appalling treatment at the shool and was removed primarialy on our own accord, but also on the advice of his psychologist. UK - you DO NOT want to go down this path. It will detsroy all the progres you have made!

Thanks for the warm welcome and advice. It's a bit overwhelming just how much support you have in the UK compared to how little we have in Aus. From reading some of the posts on other forums I get that its not without its problems, however the basic support that seems available in the UK we have been fighting for unsuccessfully over the past 6 years and now have our son home schooled with an admission from our state education that they can't support him in mainstream and he's not impaired enough to qualify for special needs classes or schools. Kilimanjaro - we are looking at Devizes or around that area. I love cros stitching and my whole family are Liverpool fanatics. We recently went to Anfield and the support they provided to my ASP son couldn't have been better - he even got his own personal bodyguard!

Hi Moving from Australia for 10 yo education support. Have letter of offer from ASP school in Sth England. Have another son so looking for areas with good schools, communities etc. Would love to know of mainstream or independent schools which can support kids with multiple ASDs. Not committed to any one area as ASP school is boarding. Have a solicitor for tribunal process which seems very scary. Any advice would be great. Thanks

We are moving from Australia to the UK for our son whose primary diagnosis is Aspergers. The support here has been horrendous and we have had to fight the Catholic education system, ASPECT (main independent ASD education provider) & the NSW state education department all of whom we were successfully able to prove breached their legislative requirements & their own governance in their blatant discrimination & abject mistreatment of our son. He is 10 & home schooled as he does not fit the requirements of a special needs class but also doesn't get the level of support he needs in mainstream schooling due to ridiculous way funding is provided over here. Your best state is QLD.