Where is my ASD son up to. We are now looking at transitioning to our son a new environment. which is doing my head in!!! Like most teenagers he has no idea what he wants to do, like most teenagers his age. So I have been canvassing our community and speaking to lots of people and professionals, trying to get my head around transitioning. TAFE courses sound great and they give lots of time to finish, but the work is way too much for my son, it really needs to be broken up into small amounts, otherwise boredom can set in. Finding the balance is going to harder than I thought.
Maybe when my son finally leaves school and he is around people that understand and he doing something that he can relate to, just maybe he will be more focused.
Anyway my theory for transitioning is do some of his TAFE course through OTEN which is the distance education for TAFE and then as we reduce the work load by using OTEN and let him finish a Business course cert 2 where he will get recognition for past work which will then shorten his time at TAFE and he should be able walk out TAFE with a Cert 2 in Business.
How will we set up transitioning. If my son wants to do something like go out or buy something, he will have do his work with the help of a reward chart to plot his progress on. Not sure if this will work there will be room to make changes if needed.
School is becoming challenging at the moment, my son stress levels are through the roof and meltdowns have started. With Christmas looming and school ending it's all becoming too much for my son!!! I hope tomorrow will be an OK day, I guess it's something to talk to the psychologist about!!!!
Maybe when my son finally leaves school and he is around people that understand and he doing something that he can relate to, just maybe he will be more focused.
Anyway my theory for transitioning is do some of his TAFE course through OTEN which is the distance education for TAFE and then as we reduce the work load by using OTEN and let him finish a Business course cert 2 where he will get recognition for past work which will then shorten his time at TAFE and he should be able walk out TAFE with a Cert 2 in Business.
How will we set up transitioning. If my son wants to do something like go out or buy something, he will have do his work with the help of a reward chart to plot his progress on. Not sure if this will work there will be room to make changes if needed.
School is becoming challenging at the moment, my son stress levels are through the roof and meltdowns have started. With Christmas looming and school ending it's all becoming too much for my son!!! I hope tomorrow will be an OK day, I guess it's something to talk to the psychologist about!!!!
Sounds a stressful time for you. He is going to need some form of ongoing structure I'd guess and the fact that nothing is organised as yet and he doesn't know what's going to happen next year must be really causing him stress. I hope something comes together for him soon, all the best with helping him sort it out.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sue I am in the middle of sorting things out, hopefully it will give some structure, probably different to what he is used to. How is your son going?
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