Linda_slater@btinternet.com

Thank you everyone for your comments & advise. We are at the start of the process; we've had a battle with my son's main stream school to get them to even acknowledge he desperately needs a statement. Life at school is so miserable for him; he is constantly bullied, he struggles with his school work, has social & communication difficulties. With the Aspergers he also has Dyspraxia & ADD so life in general is a constant, confusing battle for him. He hates school & is so desperate to move; our social worker & CAMHS are of the opinion he needs to be in a smaller, more specialised school where his needs will be met & supported. I personally feel, with all the support we have in place for him at the moment we have no option but to stay where we are. To move, even though we have just started the process, just throws more confusion in to the mix. He needs stability & so do we as a family. I had no idea the challenges that lie ahead with getting a statement; how sad is it that we have to fight so very hard to get the education that our children so desperately need & rightly deserve.

......a Statement For Special Educational Needs. Thanks for the advise regarding my user name; do you know how I change it please? I've looked but I can't see how to do it!

Hi.....I'm new to this website so please forgive me if I'm in the wrong area! We are in the process of getting my 12 year ASD son assessed for an SEN as school life for him in just so awful. My husband has just been offered a new job in the West Country so my question is.....can we continue with the assessment in Cornwall or would my husband need to move down on his own whilst we continue the assessment at his current school? Any advise would be greatly appreciated x

Hi.....I'm new to this site so hope I'm doing this right! I have a 12 year old son recently diagnosed with High Functioning Autism Disorder & Dyspraxia. We've been receiving ongoing support from CAMHS & CAMHS LAAC however I don't feel that in the last year we've really moved any further forward. As each day passes life with my son is becoming more and more challenging. His obsession is the computer; he is totally addicted and I have lost total control. To start with I limited his time to two hours a day but gradually that increased and now he can spend 10-12 hours a day playing on Robloxs (I think that is how you spell it!!). If I ask him to finish what he is doing on the computer he refuses and will go in to complete meltdown. He's now skipping meals.....breakfast, lunch and dinner most days. He doesn't leave his bedroom so has no interaction with either the rest of my family or the outside world. He doesn't exercise, has no fresh air, doesn't shower, clean his teeth etc. We have become prisoners in our own home as he refuses to leave the house and we won't leave him. This week end we managed to limit his time to 4 hours, he went out to see a friend but when he got home he went in to total melt down, trashed his room, wrecked his computer, hit both myself (battered and bruised arms and legs) & my husband (black eye). The situation was so out of control we ended up at A&E as advised by our social worker....complete waste of time, ended up coming home at 12.45am Sunday morning. So my question is....how do I take back control of my son's addiction with a computer. Personally I would like for him not to have use of one at all; the games he plays seem to change his personality and cause him to be both verbally and physically abusive. I so desperately need to know what to do for the best; I know the computer is escapism however it is having such a massive, negative effect on us all as a family!