Stuck

We are at an impasse with Jasper. He hasn’t been to school for over 2 months. He was doing extremely well and then he wasn’t.

We had worked out some really good strategies and he was doing, but things can change quickly with kids on the spectrum.

The safe room that had been set up for our son to use at school to reset and distress had been cleared out and was being used as an exclusion room. He was being locked away when he was becoming unmanageable.

At home Jasper had been becoming increasingly hyper active, we’ve come to realize that hyper activity often means stress. It got worse and worse and then he simply refused to go.

We’ve worked through a number of ”issues” with his school.   

Jaspers stress and anxiety levels have greatly reduced. Ours haven’t. My poor wife is right at the end of her wits. I’m not far behind.

For the first time in a very long time I have absolutely no idea what to do. I’m usually pretty good at sorting things out. I managed to work my way around the maze of government departments to get Jasper all that he’s entitled to through the health and education systems. And we’ve pretty good at dealing with each challenge as it presents itself, but we are now stuck.

It’s a terrible feeling working this hard and getting nowhere.

We even went and visited a special school with the thought of enrolling Jasper, at least then he would be being taught by people who new his disorder. But he wasn’t special enough.

They did however loan one of their teachers to help get Jasper back to his school.

He had his first attempt today, no luck…

Tomorrow I have an appointment with another therapist.

No, not for me for Jasper, I’ll let you know how it goes.