I am shaking with rage!

Well nothing has been said to me about it ,and she came home from school upset again last night this time having been told she cannot go on the school trip as she was silly in class. I don't really know what to do now. I'll obviously go and complain about this but I feel my complaints are falling on death ears.

that seriously sucks..


What exactly did she do in class..?

Since they are aware she's autistic and since they are aware she's having a really rough week, it is entirely expected that her behaviour will be a bit off right now.


I would be bringing the full force of the disability discrimination act down on their heads for this one..

it is absolutely wrong to stop a child going on a school trip for displaying autistic behaviour if they have a diagnosis..


Has the school not got a proper punishment system set up for her and the other children on the spectrum..? Guidelines dictate that immediate punishment of a time-out (or reflection time as it's probably been named in her school) is the best method with children on the spectrum..


I had to deal with all this for my daughter and i'm so so sorry that you and your child are going through this as well


I went into the school and forced them to change the way they punished mine.. she now has an immediate time-out and the school recognise that a punishment in the future is pointless, it's too far away for a child on the spectrum to link the original behaviour to the result..

If you want a hand with this then please let me know and i'll dig some info up on best practice for punishing a child on the spectrum.. you could take it into the school. xx