First day at uni............

[Betty Boop]

He's had a better day, have spoken to his teacher about the incident and she is investigating. He had to go to a secondary school for a taster day today as well, when I checked that he had cover for the day I was told that he only had cover until lunchtime and maybe I'd better pick him up then. Not impressed, its up to them to sort out cover and take into consideration that a child with aspergers needs company all day for any out of the 'norm' activity. Time to go and see the head and find out what is going on with the fact that neither his teacher or TA seem to know what to expect from a child with aspergers.

[Patsy Warnick]

Betty Boop

This is a serious injury - make them answer & get coverage for new teeth..

Go to the head of the class.

Patsy

[Betty Boop]

Originally Posted by Patsy Warnick

Betty Boop

This is a serious injury - make them answer & get coverage for new teeth..

Go to the head of the class.

Patsy

It's been investigated and deemed an accident, luckily I don't have to pay for his treatment. He is having the tooth sorted tomorrow morning, the swelling of his lip has now reduced.
I've still to see the special needs co-ordinator to make sure that staff are up to speed with his condition.

[Chezzie]

Originally Posted by Betty Boop

It's been investigated and deemed an accident, luckily I don't have to pay for his treatment. He is having the tooth sorted tomorrow morning, the swelling of his lip has now reduced.
I've still to see the special needs co-ordinator to make sure that staff are up to speed with his condition.

You sound more chirpy hun x

[Kathy Ellen]

Good news Betty...glad to here it

[Betty Boop]

Originally Posted by Chezzie

You sound more chirpy hun x

Thats debatable its been a hard week, culture shock of uni life, listening to 18 year olds wondering what colour eyeshadow is the best to go with their current outfit . The general feeling of 'oh my god, what am I doing, did my english tutor really think I could keep up with all these other bright intellectuals, two two hour seminars, two hour long lectures, and expected to partake in four hours of study groups a week, keep a 500 word logbook minimum, and how much reading, creative writing too, oh my, how am I going to fit everything in!'
Along with an extremely anxious son who has been traipsed around all the secondary schools in the area over the course of the week. Off now to an open evening of the one he maybe off to.

[SlipStream]

Originally Posted by Betty Boop

Not gone too well, straight after first lecture had a call from my sons school to say he'd tripped and put his tooth through his lip. He's also lost virtually half of one of his front teeth, looks like he's been in the boxing ring too

bad luck tat

[flopstock]

Originally Posted by Betty Boop

Thats debatable its been a hard week, culture shock of uni life, listening to 18 year olds wondering what colour eyeshadow is the best to go with their current outfit . The general feeling of 'oh my god, what am I doing, did my english tutor really think I could keep up with all these other bright intellectuals, two two hour seminars, two hour long lectures, and expected to partake in four hours of study groups a week, keep a 500 word logbook minimum, and how much reading, creative writing too, oh my, how am I going to fit everything in!'
Along with an extremely anxious son who has been traipsed around all the secondary schools in the area over the course of the week. Off now to an open evening of the one he maybe off to.

You must be a real brainiac BB... do you sit next to spot at meets? What is secondary school exactly?

[Betty Boop]

Originally Posted by flopstock

You must be a real brainiac BB... do you sit next to spot at meets? What is secondary school exactly?

Not a brainiac at all, although by the end of three years I might be, I now know more stuff about the Bible than I really care to know
No, I avoid Spot at all costs

British Children attend Primary School from 4 -11, then they move on to secondary, often affectionally known as 'big school' until they are 16. It's a scary time, they leave their little schools where they know everyone and remain in the same classroom with the same teacher for the day. They then move into bigger schools with different teachers for different subjects and have to move around the school to their lessons. A very daunting thing for a child with Aspergers.

[Betty Boop]

Comment made to me the other day by a fellow 'young' student........

'Oh it's ok for you, at least you can concentrate on just your uni work and not have to worry about learning to look after yourself, cooking, cleaning etc'

Yup, I have nothing else to do obviously, how lucky for me that I've already learnt how to look after myself.... and two others