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Just managed this by the skin of my teeth - Happy Birthday - well what is left of it.
We have Matthew lying flat out with a temperature, sore throat and very nasty cough. I think we are in for a rough night.
Hope you had a good day and are nice and Merry - well it is Christmas
Carole
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Hi Kathryn,
My friend - who helps me run Sunderland AIM - is also a voluntary worker with IPSEA. I would be willing to run this past her if you like? She is very good and knows her stuff.
Carole
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Hi Kathryn,
Are IPSEA helping you with this one?
Carole
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Well worra boot geordie then Badad? We tark propper up ear ye na marra. We even ad a book written like called larn ye sel geordie. It's canny al reet an all - why eye man.
Carole
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I can only agree great news and well done you
Carole
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There was silence throughout the theatre. This was the last thing that the audience expected to happen
As a hush fell over the theatre the silence was broken by a voice booming across the stage.'Cinderealla this is Big Brother will you please come to the diary room'
Cinderella looked stunned
The voice repeated'Cinderella this is Big Brother will you please come to the diary room!'
Suddenly as if by magic (well it is a panto where anything is possible) the Big Brother diary room appeared before her very eyes.
'Well Cinderella' the voice continued 'And what do you think you are doing coming onto the stage dressed like that? You are Cinderella not Wonder Woman why on earth are you dressed like that?
Cinderella went a very bright shade of red and growled at the voice
'This is a pantomime and I can wear what ever I want!' She said stamping her very pretty (not so little) foot - minus slipper cos we have not got that far yet!
The ski thudded onto the stage and she almost fell over The voice interupted her 'You most certainly can not wear what you like Cinderella. In Act one you wear your rags and in Act two you wear the Ball Gown because this is Cinderella and it's also what the audience expect OK?'
'Well it's not OK actually because I am fed up with sticking to the script and fed up with sharing the stage with aload of wimps and men dressed up as women.
Voice 'May I remind you Cinderella that when you entered the Cinderella Panto you signed a contract to say that you would go from rags to riches and NO WHERE in that contract did it mention skis!!!!!!! Now Cinderella may I have your nominations for this Panto's evictions from the stage?
Cinderella 'How many nominations can I make?
Voice 'Two'
Cinderella ' Only two you must be joking? Take a look at who I am sharing the stage with - I want them all gone. That way I may have the chance to live a little. I can picture it now free to be who I really want to be FREE at LAST - FREE AT LAST!
Voice 'OK Cinderella don't push your luck'
Cinderalla ' You call being stuck on the stage with this bunch of no hopers every night luck? I want to live a little
Who am I kidding I want to live a lot 
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Now how many of them can I get rid of PLEASE?'Voice 'OK Cinderall seeing as it's you - you may make three nominations but that's all.'
Cinders to audience 'OK you lot who should I vote for?' There is lots of shouting
Cinders 'I can't hear you who did you say?' Buttons? NO The Ugly Step Sisters? NO MEEEEEEEEEE OK which one of you said ME!
My nominations for tonights show are Buttons - because he's a drip who is dripping with sugar - I just can't take him anymore. My second nomination is The Ugly Sisters - there is something real strange about those two - and finally Prince Charming'Voice 'Prince Charming Cinders you can not nominate him. Who will you marry at the end of the show?'
Cinderella 'No One and that's the BIG idea oh wonderful one. If I can get rid of him I can live
Hey I may even meet someone that I REALLY like a man with some real power 
So there you go you have my three nominations'Voice 'OK ladies and gentlemen,boys and girls, who is it going to be? Will it be Buttons - who might be a lot better if he could find a better suit to wear - but will he suit Cinderella? Or will it be The Two Ugly Sisters - and if it is will they take it like a MAN!!!!! Or could it be Prince Charming - which would ruin the show and leave you all asking fro your money back. The choice is yours?
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Hi Patrick,
You sound like a pretty
dad to me!!! We can not be everything to any one person all we can do is our best. !2 is a difficult age - having already been there with my middle son, now 17 and also AS - I know that only to well. It's the age when the realisation that they are viewed as being different really begins to kick in. We have had this along with the depression and not going to school. In the end we gave up and decided that David would not go back to school. He to would never do anything that he could either not see the point in or had no interest in, so we went with his interest for quite a few years. Eventually the will to learn returned and we started afresh from there. What do you call learning? We taught David self help skills and life skills. You will not believe me when I say that you and your son are lucky because as he does grow older there is lots that a dad and a lad can do together. It's so much harder for a mum to trail around with a big strapping lad - that's when it does look odd. I am also lucky because I have a 25 year old son who does all of the blokle stuff with David and because of this David has actually gained a social life. Ok the friends he now has are his brothers friends but David is accepted and joins in most things with him. If anyone had told me when David was 12 that he would now be outgoing and going out and about I would not of beleived them - but he is.12 is a difficult age because the hormones kick in to and depresion is pretty common place as is lack of motivation. Some days we worked on triple time and got nowhere. I now know that this was not because we were doing anything wrong it's just the way it is. The only thing you can do is be there - and you are - and so are we now. This forum is also a
place to be - WelcomeCarole
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I have to say that for those of of who home educate it would have to be much more flexible than logging on at 8.30am. (Yes we are a lazy bunch of so and so's) I would love to have this kind of facility but one that is flexible. I also think that this is something that LEA's will have to take on board to tackle the problem of school refusers and other children who, for whatever reason do not attend. BUT it should be offered to parents with SEN children at no cost to them.
Carole
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:clap:Carole
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Is anyone into Astronomy? I ask because we were discussing this topic as we sat round our tea table today, as you do, and it suddenly came to me in a flash that I am most certainly the thickest person living in our house
No astounding levels of knowledge from me no sir, after sitting there listening to my four for almost an hour, well they are ALL really good talkers,(take after their mother) it slowly began to dawn on me that I am probably NOT the right person to be home educating Matthew and David as they were in fact educating me 
It all began with a throw away comment about black holes, I would imagine that we all make reference to black holes many times each day so no surprise there then. Matthew wanted to ask Rob what would happen if the planet earth is, at some point in the very distant future, (I hope) sucked into a blak hole. Rob replied that the earth would be crushed as would anything else that came into contact with a black hole - I had no idea that we had so many vast recycling plants floating around in cyber space just wating to recycle our rubbish. Amazing or what?
All we need now is to find a way to utilise it's potential!Well the conversation then hurtled, much the same as a black hole, towards the asteriods which are a constant threat to the universe! Are they really? And here I am going about my daily life in a devil may care fashion
full of fun and frolics not knowing that the end of the world may be just around the corner They sure know how to cheer a girl up. Rob reassured Matthew that we now have the technology to be able to find these pesky asteriods and would know months, if not years in advance, of one hitting earth. Shish that's a relief then still time for one last drink and possibiliy even a party May as well go out with a bang The conversation came to an end when Matthew - who remember is only 7 - gave a virtual reality and down to scale re-enactment of how big we, being the earth (I'm catching on fast now) were in comparison to one of these asteriods. Rob - who has an A level in Astronomy (show off)
said that Matthew was correct and that that was about the size of it! Well not much to worry about at all, if these things are only the same size as our dinning room table, can't see that they could do that much damage after all They then began a conversation about parallel universes which was my cue to get up and wash the dishes as I had no doubt at all by this point that this would be way over my head and I was, with out doubt, unable to join in and make any meaningful comments.
I know my place and that's why you will find me hiding here for the night 
just incase I am asked for an opinion! Carole
Who can't spell either - but then you have probably realised that by now tooo!!!!
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Nick Hornby who wrote the Book 'About a Buy' has a son Danny who is quite profoundly autistic. It's generally accepted that Nick did make the boy appear to have AS. If you read the book there is no doubt about this it comes across much more clearly. But it's never actually stated that the lad does have AS. My friend Richard, who knows Nick, tells me he did mean it to be like that?
Carole
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I think you have said it all Carol and you certainly brought a tear to my eyes
Carole
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I don't want to cure my sons because I don't believe that they are ill? I would however like to make their lives easier and take some of their anxieties and phobias from them. So there are parts of their autism that they have difficulty coping with, that I would like to make easier for them. Does that make sense?
Carole
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Well I almost began my post by saying that I was a bat cave virgin - being my first post in the cave - but I thought it might be a bit rude
I also wasn't sure if I was posting in the correct place
And yes I could do with a laugh myself cos the painting ALL has to be done again - and that means buying MORE paint
Carole
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When Terry suggested that he painted the doors on our landing last thing at night, just before we all went to bed, it sounded like a good idea.
It meant there was less chance of anyone touching the paint, which has to be very low oder because David can not stand the smell of paint.So this evening he began painting the six doors on our landing. David and Matthew were actually being sociable with each other for the first time this week, and were playing on a game in David's room. I decided to watch some tat TV well Gems TV actually, there is no plot so if I have to race up the stairs upon hearing blood curdling screams I don't miss anything.
Well after almost an hour of pure bliss, and several rings I would love to own if we had the money, I heard not one but three sets of blood curdling screams
. I was imagining that a mad axe man had entered the house without my realising it . I raced up the stairs 
while Terry was screaming close the doors, close the doors. It appears that Terry also decided to paint the loft covering and so he took it down. We had, what they all thought was a bat, flying around in our bedrooms. Brilliant it could only happen to us! After a few seconds I realised that it was way to big to be a bat and it was actually a Starling.
It has just taken us 45 minutes to get the flaming thing out of our bedroom. During which time Matthew brought ALL of his Guinea Pigs
(sorry it's the nearest thing I could find) up to to meet the bird which he was determined to give a name and keeping as a new pet!!!!!!!!! He must be joking Eventually I had a brain wave
( wished I'd had it sooner) and opened our windows, much easier than trying to catch a terrified bird - it flew out. Excellent - only Terry and Matthew both look like they have been painting themselves as they rubbed against all of the doors which has just been painted grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Not such a good idea after all. The bath is currently running - yes at 5 past midnight.
Carole
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Hi Andrea,
I good way to begin to collect information about AS would be to read as many of the posts on differemt topics as possible. There is a wealth of information here and you can learn a great deal.
welcome
Carole
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Not that I have calmed down becasue I have not - but I have spoken to my best friend sho works for IPSEA. She has told me that it would be a very good idea to phone them because they are the leading experts in disbality discrimination and from what you have said your son is being discriminated against. He has either been provoked or not and the Learning Support Assistant told you he has. She can not take back those words they have been said. The school are covering their own backs and your son is an east traget here.
My friend says that it looks like the Head had not taken appropriate measures to ensure that you son is confident and comfortable enough to tell anyone when he is troubled. This she tells me is a BIG issue. She also feels that IPSEA would put you in touch with SENDIST (hope that's right)
Here is the hotline number for IPSEA 01394 384711
Carole
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Hello Bluejean-genie,
So is the Learning Mentor a liar? Because she is either lying to you or the Head Teacher here. I am sick to my stomache that the Head would advise the parents to involve the Police - what was their attitude like? - I would NOT be sending my son back to a school that allows the abuseres to win. Can you imagine what is going to happen if your son returns there? I would also not send him back into an environment where there is no understanding or awareness of the condition and where the Head deserves a good kick up the a***. Sorry I am so angry. I will post later when I have calmed down!
Carole
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I can't offer any advice as such but as a parent I would have to point out to this school, that my son has a 'communication and socalisation' disorder, which makes it difficult for him, if not impossible, to tell even an LSA, hard as that may be to comprehend that another child is giving him grief. It's all part and parcel of the dx - how much do they fully understand.
My two sons often find it difficult to tell ME what is bothering them so there would be little chance of them finding the words to tell an LSA.
As for the verbal abuse that he has suffered - it is just that abuse - it should not be over looked because in my book it's encitement. No one deserves to be called a rapist or gay! Sorry but my blood is boiling
Violence may be wrong but right now I would like to thump those lads for your son! Because they are probably having a good laugh now when in reality THEY should be the ones being excluded.Carole
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Hi Nellie,
John Wright trained my friend and what she does not know is not worth knowing - when it comes to statements. But I would agree that the NAS would be more ASD aware.
Carole
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Would IPSEA be able to help here? It's just a though but my best friend mand the help line for IPSEA and she knows how a statement should read and what should be in in. She also has a son with ASD so she knows her stuff there to.
I do know that the helpline is operating during the holidays as my friend is now on two nights per week.
Carole
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Teaching Alexander to read.
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Hi
Our son Matthew is also 7 and has a diagnosis of High Functioning Autism. We home educate as Matthew did not fit the criteria for help either!
We also have HUGE problems with Matthew and reading. In part down to the fact that his school handled it so badly. We have just about tried everything, including buying into an internet reading package, which was excellent, but Matthew had no interest. Here in the UK I am a member of a SEN - HE list and the advice I was given there was to leave it. Take it off the agenda and give Matthew some space. So against my better judgement I have.
When the Christmas advertising began Matthew suddenly started to ask 'what does that say?' and so it has gone. He is now picking words out from the TV screen. he is wanting to read so that he can join his brothers on their computer games. We tried phonics, which he learned no problem but could not then string them together to make words. Now I believe he is reading whole words, by word recognition. We bought a junior scrabble floor game for Christmas and he is doing really well. We also play scrabble, and other word games and he helps by holding the bag but also now tries to make words. I have decided that Matthew will read - eventually. It's just going to take a while.
Sorry if this has not been much help to you.
Carole