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pixie · Site Admin Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 1955

Alex is not a disturbed child, although he could easily be mistaken for one. Sitting in his classroom, he often looks out of the window, and then his restlessness becomes infectious and begins to distract the other kids. Asked to read a sentence, Alex becomes recalcitrant, unwilling to try.
In the past year his autism has become more visible, more worrying. Last summer he began trying to harm himself. And then one day his mother Tracey found him on a window ledge at home, threatening to throw himself off. He was eight years old.

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Speeds · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject:

Thanks for posting. The whole area of SEN is such a minefield.
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