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Glasgow City Council has a long running and influential Working Group on Autism. I am one of the diagnosed representatives. We are looking for people who want to find out more about being a Rep, or being part of the focus group that guides the Reps. You can find out more via email, or face-to-face at a small meeting held in Glasgow. This involves Attending formal meetings (up to 20 people) every two months. Collecting views and information from the community on a variety of topics including health provision, education, criminal justice, housing, diagnosis, support, social work.... everything that the City Council does! Preparing papers and speaking to them. Speaking as part of the discussion on things you haven't prepared. Listening and processing what other people say. Transmitting the discussion and decisions back to the community. You can also be a less formal Rep who comes and observes, perhaps speaking on a topic of special importance to you. We are trying to develop training materials and remove barriers to access, using the valuable experience of current and former Reps. Through the Autism Resource Centre we are hoping to run a focus group which meets before each Council meeting so that people can find out what is happening, have their say, and talk to their Reps. This is where you can find out what happened in the last meeting as well. You can also contribute by email or the Aspirational board. Please send me a message here if you would like further information. I can try to answer any questions you have. We welcome your ideas about how to carry this forward. PLEASE NOTE: You can only be one of these Reps, and only contribute to the informal meetings, if you live in the Glasgow City Council area. Expressing an interest doesn't oblige you to take on anything

I was wondering if anyone has any advice. My daughter Erin 9yrs had her IEp meeting just before the break up of primary 4. I should add that we stay in scotland. Although erin has done really well in p4 ( she got her diagnosis at the end of p3), I am concerned that things are just drifting. She was supposed to be assessed by an educational psychologist ( this was from her IEP meeting in october 2011.) but this never happened. Then the speech therapist informed me that she was discharging erin, which i was very unhappy about and expressed this> so i wrote to the head teacher and asked to meet with her. I met her and two other teachers, i was there myself. I stated that i wished that erin to have a statutory assessment by the local education authority for a co-ordinated support plan as I was concerned that while P4 had been a good year for her as she has got older the differences between her and her peers have become more noticable and I was worried that she may smart to run into difficulties. additionally i wanted something in place well before she transitions to high school as i know that she will not cope without a high level of support ( moving from one class to another will totally stress her out). anyway the head teacher stated that erin did not meet the criteria for a co-ordinated support plan as she does not have any external agencies involved.( she statesd that educational psychologist and speech therapy are not external). Is this right ?. I feel as if iam being hoodwinked and just wanted to try and get as much info before she returns to school at then end of august thanks Cameron