Hi i'm new to this site

Thank you everyone for such a warm welcoming :)

I'm from sheffield, i would say sunny sheffield but its looking a little dull outside.

My my son tyler is very behind at school, which worrys me greatly, he is in a mainstream school as i've heard it would be extremly difficult to place him in a school where i feel he'd get more help. I've heard the other schools are brilliant and even offer help during holidays which i would appreciate living on my own. Tyler looks tired but i don't think thats why his school work suffers. The school where concerned about Tyler in class last year and they referred him to rygate where he was diagnosed, so he's been diagnosed for just under a year. Tyler isn't naughty (he can be) but at school he has a very short attention span and sometimes seems to be in his own world i get very worried as the only work he doe's in class is draw pictures. His teacher says she suspects he's really good with numbers but he still has a low grade as it is imposible to record his level as he doesn't do the work.

I can't explain how i often feel about Tyler having Autism and Mild ADHD, at times i'm frustrated not with Tyler, but with others at school and out in public etc, a few months ago, he wanted a chicken sandwhich for his dinner and the dinner lady explained there was only turkey and ham, but because of his lack of comuncation skills, she just gave him chicken curry. A friends child told me after school, that tyler was crying in the dinner hall and five dinner ladys and the head teacher would not let him eat desert till he'd eaten his dinner! I was so angry after spending months trying to get the school to be aware of tyler and then he had to endure that. He now has someone to sit with at dinner who orders his food.

Sorry Leanne but whats a statement? As tyler is my first and i don't know any other moms with children with autism, i just assume tyler was like every other child his age, everythings still very new to me. Tyler had a tick (fit) at school a month ago and i didn't know till a member of staff told me children with autism can be affected fits. Please excuse my spellings :)