[senco-forum] ASperger's and worry about Year 7

Hi Tim
  This is exactly what we do for pupils with ASD and for some other pupils with different sorts of SEN.  I have very positive feed back from parents about this process.  Photos are an excellent idea.  We have pictures on our website where you can click on a room on the plan and see a picture.  Do other schools do the same?
  Amanda
  Secondary SENCO
  Cornwall

Tim Rupp <tgrupp at ntlworld.com> wrote:
  Round our way the children move up at the end of Year 5, but it is to a High 
School, which is slightly less threatening.

My son, Autistic Spectrum, was very concerned about moving to the High 
School and so we contacted the SENCo there and went on several visits before 
the normal transition days. He got more of a feel for the place this way.

The best thing we did at this point was to get a camera and go around the 
school taking photos of various places in the school that were going to be 
important to him in the coming years. We gave him the responsibility of 
putting these photographs into an order that was meaningful to him. In the 
end he decided to use a map of the school and stick the photos close to 
where those places were on the map.

At the end of the day the strength of this was that he felt much more 
comfortable with the transition as he had already pictured the locations 
that he was going to be studying in prior to starting at the High School.

He is now undergoing transfer to the next stage, but we believe that this 
will be more straightforward, mainly due to his increased maturity in some 
areas.

Tim Rupp
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "WrayJanice Wray" 
To: "senco forum" 
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 4:15 PM
Subject: [senco-forum] ASperger's and worry about Year 7

A lad in Year 6 with a statement for Asperger's syndrome came to see me on 
the open evening - he'll be coming to us next september but is alwready 
worrying about it and it is affeting his behaviour at primary school.
I will ask the EP etc but wonder if anyone out there had experience of how 
to assist transition for such a lad.
He has 20+ hours of TA support apparently including playtimes.
I'd like to help calm his fearsJanice WraySecondary SENCO, Herts
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Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall